Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sarton, May

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stine, Richard

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rohn, Jim

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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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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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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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.

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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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

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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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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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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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

Ovid

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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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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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