Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Nolte, Nick

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Soul, Julia

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

Allen, Woody

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.

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

Frost, Robert

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Havlicek, John

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Jong, Erica

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

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

Horace

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

Sarton, May

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb, American

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

James, William

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

Moss, Stirling

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