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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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

Sarton, May

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, American

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

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Eliot, T. S.

25.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Frost, Robert

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

Woodberry, George E.

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Krone, Julie

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proust, Marcel