Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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

West, Meredith

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

Ali, Muhammad

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Erica Jong

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

Ash, Roy

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Joaquin Setanti

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

14.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Aesop

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

22.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Platen

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

Kazan, Elia

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

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

32.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Salazar, Alberto

36.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Virgil

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Repplier, Agnes

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Proverb, American