Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sculley, John

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Moss, Stirling

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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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

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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Repplier, Agnes

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Pilpay

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

Proverb, American

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

Erica Jong

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

Aesop

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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Kennedy, John F.