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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gretzky, Wayne

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, American

14.

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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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

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

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

Virgil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Allen, Woody

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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

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

Pilpay

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Platen

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

West, Meredith

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

Aesop

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

Soul, Julia

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Jong, Erica

39.

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

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

James, William