Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Burke, James E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, T. S.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Horace

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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Platen

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Ovid

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Aesop

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Getty, J. Paul

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Soul, Julia

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Sculley, John

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