Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

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

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

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Stine, Richard

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Sculley, John

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Pilpay

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

Burke, James E.

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

Platen

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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Moss, Stirling

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Soul, Julia

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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

39.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hufstedler, Shirley