Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

?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

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Burke, James E.

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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.

11.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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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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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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Churchill, Winston

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

31.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Bradbury, Ray

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

James, William

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