Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Stine, Richard

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

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

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

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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

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

Julia Sorel

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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.

Brown, Les

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

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ali, Muhammad

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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Hines, Duncan

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Sculley, John

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.