Motivational Quotes

Risk

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Risk

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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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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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Woodberry, George E.

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stine, Richard

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Erica Jong

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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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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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