Motivational Quotes

Risk

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ash, Roy

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

Burke, James E.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Aesop

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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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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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Jong, Erica

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Krone, Julie

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

Collier, Robert

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Ovid

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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

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

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

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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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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Pilpay

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

Sarton, May

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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