Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ali, Muhammad

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Havlicek, John

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

Pilpay

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Sculley, John

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Repplier, Agnes

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Julia Sorel

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

West, Meredith

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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.