Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Metastasio, Pietro

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gardner, John W.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Jong, Erica

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

Shaw, P.K.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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 win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Platen

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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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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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, American

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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.

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

30.

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

Sculley, John

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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

Patton, George S.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Ash, Roy

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Horace

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

Virgil