Motivational Quotes

Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Kroc, Ray

2.

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

Jong, Erica

3.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

4.

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

5.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Jong, Erica

9.

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

10.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

11.

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

Salazar, Alberto

12.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

13.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

14.

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

Hines, Duncan

15.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

16.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

17.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

18.

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

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

21.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

23.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

24.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

25.

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

Bradbury, Ray

26.

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

Repplier, Agnes

27.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

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

29.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

30.

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

31.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

32.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

33.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

34.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

35.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

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

Toffler, Alvin

37.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

38.

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

Getty, J. Paul

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

James, William

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

42.

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.

John F. Kennedy

43.

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

44.

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

Moss, Stirling

45.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

46.

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

47.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

48.

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

Virgil

49.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

50.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.