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

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

Aesop

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

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

Danton, Georges

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

James, William

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

Joaquin Setanti

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Stine, Richard

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Ash, Roy

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Burke, James E.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

40.

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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