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

1.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

3.

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

Allen, Woody

4.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

5.

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

James, William

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

Toffler, Alvin

11.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

12.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

14.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

18.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Krone, Julie

22.

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

West, Meredith

23.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

24.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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

26.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

30.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

31.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

32.

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

Sculley, John

33.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

34.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

35.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

37.

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

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

40.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

41.

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

Ovid

42.

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

Moss, Stirling

43.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

44.

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

Collier, Robert

45.

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

Julia Sorel

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

50.

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