Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarton, May

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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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.

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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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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Woodberry, George E.

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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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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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.