Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

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

Repplier, Agnes

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Ali, Muhammad

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Sarton, May

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Patton, George S.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Frost, Robert

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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