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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

West, Meredith

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

James, William

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Frost, Robert

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

Sarton, May

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

10.

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

11.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

Feather, William

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

18.

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

19.

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

Proust, Marcel

20.

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.

21.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

22.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

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

Joaquin Setanti

24.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

25.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Lippmann, Walter

30.

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

31.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

32.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

33.

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

Ash, Roy

34.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

35.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

36.

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

Nolte, Nick

37.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

40.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

42.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

43.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

44.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

45.

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

46.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

47.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

48.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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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 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