Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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.

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

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ovid

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

22.

?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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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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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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Nolte, Nick

35.

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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.