Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Pilpay

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

Hines, Duncan

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

10.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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 either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

14.

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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Erica Jong

19.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

20.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

Sarton, May

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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

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

27.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

28.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

30.

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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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

32.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

36.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

Kazan, Elia

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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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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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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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 feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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