Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

Best Quotes about Risk

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Jong, Erica

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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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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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pilpay

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

Sculley, John

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

Burke, James E.

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Soul, Julia

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.