Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Erica Jong

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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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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

Ovid

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Burke, James E.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jong, Erica

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

James, William

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ash, Roy

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Brown, Les

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

Ali, Muhammad

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