Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Hines, Duncan

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Erica Jong

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

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

Patton, George S.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

11.

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

12.

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

Salazar, Alberto

13.

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

Koestler, Arthur

14.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

16.

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

18.

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

Kroc, Ray

19.

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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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

21.

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

Ovid

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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.

23.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

24.

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

Soul, Julia

25.

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

Julia Sorel

26.

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.

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Friedman, Milton

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

33.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

35.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Moss, Stirling

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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

41.

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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

46.

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

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

48.

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

Proverb, American

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

Sculley, John

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.