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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Soul, Julia

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Krone, Julie

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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.

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

Aesop

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Horace

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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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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.

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Erica Jong

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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