Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Salazar, Alberto

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Kazan, Elia

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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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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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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Havlicek, John

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Pilpay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius