Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Nolte, Nick

5.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

7.

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

Stine, Richard

8.

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

Shaw, P.K.

9.

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

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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

Getty, J. Paul

11.

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

Eliot, T. S.

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

14.

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

Frost, Robert

15.

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

Soul, Julia

16.

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

Bradbury, Ray

17.

?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

18.

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

Salazar, Alberto

19.

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

20.

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

Jong, Erica

21.

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

Havlicek, John

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

24.

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

Gardner, John W.

25.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

26.

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

Ali, Muhammad

27.

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

Danton, Georges

28.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

29.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

30.

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

Woodberry, George E.

31.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

32.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Aesop

34.

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

Koestler, Arthur

35.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

36.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

37.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

38.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

39.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

41.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

42.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

43.

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

44.

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

Burke, James E.

45.

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

Gerstner, Lou

46.

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.

47.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

48.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

49.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

50.

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