Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Koestler, Arthur

2.

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

Sarton, May

3.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

4.

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.

5.

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.

6.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

7.

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

Ali, Muhammad

8.

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

Aesop

9.

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

10.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

11.

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

Toffler, Alvin

12.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

14.

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

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

17.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

18.

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

19.

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

Hines, Duncan

20.

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

Jong, Erica

21.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

23.

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

Joaquin Setanti

24.

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

25.

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

Moss, Stirling

26.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

27.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

28.

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

Salazar, Alberto

29.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

30.

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

31.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

32.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

34.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

35.

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

Virgil

36.

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

Proust, Marcel

37.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

38.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

42.

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.

43.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Platen

48.

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

Burke, James E.

49.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

50.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American