Motivational Quotes

Risk

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

- Johnson, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Ovid

2.

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

3.

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

Friedman, Milton

4.

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

Shaw, P.K.

5.

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

Pilpay

6.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

7.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

Ali, Muhammad

9.

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

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

?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

12.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

13.

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

Lippmann, Walter

14.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

15.

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.

16.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

20.

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

Soul, Julia

21.

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

22.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

23.

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

24.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Virgil

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

31.

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

32.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

33.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

34.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

35.

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

Toffler, Alvin

36.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

Bradbury, Ray

38.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

39.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

40.

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

Frost, Robert

41.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

42.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

43.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

Erica Jong

46.

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

Kazan, Elia

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

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

49.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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