Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Getty, J. Paul

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Hines, Duncan

5.

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

Sarton, May

6.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

8.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

9.

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

Soul, Julia

10.

?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

11.

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

Frost, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

Julia Sorel

14.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

15.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

16.

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

James, William

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Shaw, P.K.

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

21.

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

22.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

25.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

26.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

32.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

37.

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

38.

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

Friedman, Milton

39.

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

Joaquin Setanti

40.

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

41.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

42.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

Repplier, Agnes

45.

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.