Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Repplier, Agnes

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rohn, Jim

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Moss, Stirling

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Proverb, American

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Sculley, John

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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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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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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

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

Aesop

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

Ovid

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Jong, Erica

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Julia Sorel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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