Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Frost, Robert

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

11.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

12.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

13.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

14.

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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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

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?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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

20.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

21.

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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

23.

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

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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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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

29.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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

31.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Sculley, John

33.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

West, Meredith

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

37.

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

Julia Sorel

38.

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

Shaw, P.K.

39.

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

Havlicek, John

40.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Gretzky, Wayne