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

1.

?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

2.

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

Collier, Robert

3.

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

Nolte, Nick

4.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

5.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

6.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

7.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

8.

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

Koestler, Arthur

9.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

10.

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

11.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

13.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

14.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

15.

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

16.

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

Virgil

17.

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.

18.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

21.

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

Jong, Erica

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

25.

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

26.

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

Salazar, Alberto

27.

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

Patton, George S.

28.

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

29.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

30.

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

Havlicek, John

31.

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

32.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

33.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

34.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

35.

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

36.

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

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Ali, Muhammad

39.

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

Pilpay

40.

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

43.

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

44.

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

Erica Jong

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

47.

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