Motivational Quotes

Risk

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

- Havlicek, John

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

James, William

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

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

Friedman, Milton

11.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

12.

?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

13.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

14.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

15.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

16.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

17.

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

Krone, Julie

18.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

19.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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

Burke, James E.

21.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Sculley, John

27.

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

Danton, Georges

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

30.

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

Pilpay

31.

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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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 is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ovid

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

Salazar, Alberto

37.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hines, Duncan

39.

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

40.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

48.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

49.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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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.