Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Ash, Roy

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

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

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

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

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

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

20.

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

Soul, Julia

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

27.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Proverb, American

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Aesop

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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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Ovid

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.