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

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

Havlicek, John

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

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

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

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

Krone, Julie

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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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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

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

Erica Jong

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sculley, John

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Horace

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gardner, John W.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Ali, Muhammad

41.

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

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

Proverb, American

43.

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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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Hines, Duncan