Motivational Quotes

Risk

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Risk

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

40.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May