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

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

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Krone, Julie

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

Soul, Julia

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Ovid

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

James, William

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Friedman, Milton

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Patton, George S.

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Julia Sorel

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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.