Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Patton, George S.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Burke, James E.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Pilpay

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Danton, Georges

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

Platen

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

34.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Aesop

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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Woodberry, George E.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William