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

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

Woodberry, George E.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hines, Duncan

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

10.

?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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Allen, Woody

18.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Sculley, John

22.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Platen

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

Joaquin Setanti

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

31.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

34.

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

Danton, Georges

35.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

36.

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

Stine, Richard

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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 try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Krone, Julie

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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