Motivational Quotes

Risk

To save all we must risk all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rohn, Jim

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Ash, Roy

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Krone, Julie

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.