Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Sculley, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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

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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Erica Jong

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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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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

28.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Kroc, Ray

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Hufstedler, Shirley