Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Patton, George S.

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

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ash, Roy

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Kazan, Elia

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.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Jong, Erica

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, American

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Aesop

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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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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Pilpay

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

Soul, Julia

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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 play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Nolte, Nick