Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Koestler, Arthur

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Erica Jong

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hines, Duncan

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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

24.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Brown, Les

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

Moss, Stirling

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Jong, Erica

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

Soul, Julia

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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.

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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.