Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proust, Marcel

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Pilpay

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Woodberry, George E.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Aesop

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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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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Krone, Julie

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