Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Ash, Roy

2.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

3.

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

4.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

5.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

6.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

7.

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

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Stine, Richard

11.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

12.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

13.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

14.

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

15.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

16.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

18.

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

19.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

20.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

21.

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

Shaw, P.K.

22.

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

West, Meredith

23.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

24.

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.

25.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

26.

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

27.

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

Friedman, Milton

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Woodberry, George E.

31.

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.

32.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

James, William

38.

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

Patton, George S.

39.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

40.

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

41.

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

Kazan, Elia

42.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

43.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

44.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

Julia Sorel

47.

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

Brown, Les

48.

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

Repplier, Agnes

49.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag