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

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Pilpay

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Brown, Les

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Virgil

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

10.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

11.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

12.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

13.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

15.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

16.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

17.

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

Danton, Georges

18.

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

Platen

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

Toffler, Alvin

20.

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

Jong, Erica

21.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

23.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Julia Sorel

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Sculley, John

29.

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

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Allen, Woody

32.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

34.

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

Sarton, May

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

39.

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

Kroc, Ray

40.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

41.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

42.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Krone, Julie

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

Burke, James E.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

49.

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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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.