Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Joaquin Setanti

Best Quotes about Risk

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Danton, Georges

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Rohn, Jim

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Soul, Julia

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Erica Jong

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Platen

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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! 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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Virgil

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.