Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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

Aesop

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

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

10.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Danton, Georges

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

19.

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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?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

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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

22.

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

23.

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

Patton, George S.

24.

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

25.

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

West, Meredith

26.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

29.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

30.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

31.

Read, Randy

32.

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

Pilpay

33.

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

34.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

35.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

36.

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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

38.

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

Frost, Robert

39.

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

Salazar, Alberto

40.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.