Motivational Quotes

Risk

Never tell me the odds.

- Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Frost, Robert

2.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

3.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

4.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

5.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

6.

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

7.

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

Pilpay

8.

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

9.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

10.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

11.

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

Woodberry, George E.

12.

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

Koestler, Arthur

13.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

14.

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

Ovid

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

18.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

22.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

23.

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

Sculley, John

24.

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

Erica Jong

25.

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

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

28.

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

29.

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

Kroc, Ray

30.

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

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Joaquin Setanti

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

35.

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

36.

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

Platen

37.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

38.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

39.

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

Nolte, Nick

40.

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

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

43.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

45.

?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

46.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

47.

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

Soul, Julia

48.

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

Lippmann, Walter

49.

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

50.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag