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

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

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

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

Burke, James E.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Ash, Roy

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Platen

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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Proverb, American

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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

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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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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 never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Krone, Julie

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Patton, George S.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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 easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Collier, Robert