Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Lillian Carter

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Kazan, Elia

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

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

West, Meredith

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

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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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?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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Sarton, May

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Stine, Richard

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

Platen

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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

Ash, Roy

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

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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

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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 you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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