Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Nolte, Nick

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Erica Jong

10.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Aesop

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

Soul, Julia

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

Repplier, Agnes

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

28.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

29.

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

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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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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Platen

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

41.

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

Havlicek, John

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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

43.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo