Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Aesop

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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

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

Stine, Richard

10.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

11.

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

12.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

13.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

17.

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.

18.

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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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 want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Moss, Stirling

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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.

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ovid

28.

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

Jong, Erica

29.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sculley, John

31.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

32.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Danton, Georges

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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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

Allen, Woody

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

Krone, Julie

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

Bradbury, Ray

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Jong, Erica