Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

10.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

11.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Ash, Roy

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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 more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Sarton, May

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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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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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Katherine Mansfield

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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

Nolte, Nick

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina