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

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.

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

Sculley, John

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Gardner, John W.

5.

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

6.

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

Woodberry, George E.

7.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

8.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

9.

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

Aesop

10.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

11.

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

12.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

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.

17.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

18.

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

Ovid

19.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

20.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

23.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

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

Julia Sorel

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

Gerstner, Lou

28.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

29.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

30.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

31.

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

Joaquin Setanti

32.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

34.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

40.

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.

41.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

44.

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

Burke, James E.

45.

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.

46.

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

Frost, Robert

47.

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

48.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

49.

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

West, Meredith

50.

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

Krone, Julie