Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ovid

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Sculley, John

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Jong, Erica

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