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

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Soul, Julia

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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

?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

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

West, Meredith

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

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

Erica Jong

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Havlicek, John

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Platen

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren