Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

Horace

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.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Brown, Les

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Rohn, Jim

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Sculley, John

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

Burke, James E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Patton, George S.

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Pilpay