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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

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

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

Ash, Roy

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

?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

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

Burke, James E.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Erica Jong

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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

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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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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, American

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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

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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Horace

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

Krone, Julie

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Julia Sorel

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

James, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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.