Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

Allen, Woody

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Ovid

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

Sculley, John

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

James, William

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Aesop

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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Soul, Julia

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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