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

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

Ash, Roy

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

Virgil

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

?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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Sarton, May

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

27.

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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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.

Lillian Carter

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

33.

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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Nolte, Nick

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Soul, Julia

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

41.

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

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

Platen

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

Burke, James E.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Krone, Julie

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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.