Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Julia Sorel

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

West, Meredith

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

29.

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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Burke, James E.

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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