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

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ali, Muhammad

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Platen

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

Allen, Woody

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

Woodberry, George E.

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Sculley, John

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And 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.

25.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pilpay

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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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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

29.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

33.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

34.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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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 true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Koestler, Arthur

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley