Motivational Quotes

Risk

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

- Maltz, Maxwell

Best Quotes about Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Allen, Woody

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ovid

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Patton, George S.

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

Platen

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Jong, Erica

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

33.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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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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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

39.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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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

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

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

Nolte, Nick

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Run for daylight.