Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Hufstedler, Shirley

Best Quotes about Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Nolte, Nick

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Lippmann, Walter

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Frost, Robert

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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

West, Meredith

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

30.

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

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Aesop

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Koestler, Arthur