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

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

Eliot, T. S.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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.

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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

Patton, George S.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Danton, Georges

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, American

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

Pilpay

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

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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Jong, Erica

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Educated risks are the key to success.

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

Erica Jong

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Joaquin Setanti

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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