Motivational Quotes

Risk

?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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Pilpay

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

Erica Jong

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Patton, George S.

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, American

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jong, Erica

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Ovid