Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Risk

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Julia Sorel

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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Platen

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

21.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilpay

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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

39.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ovid

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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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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Krone, Julie

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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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