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

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

Pilpay

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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

Aesop

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Ovid

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

Getty, J. Paul

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Jong, Erica

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

22.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Burke, James E.

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

Proverb, American

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Erica Jong

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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

James, William

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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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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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