Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Horace

2.

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

3.

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

Krone, Julie

4.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

5.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

6.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

7.

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

Burke, James E.

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

10.

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

Allen, Woody

11.

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

12.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

13.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

14.

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

Danton, Georges

15.

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

Pilpay

16.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

17.

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

Aesop

18.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

20.

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

Ali, Muhammad

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Hines, Duncan

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

28.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

29.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

33.

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

Getty, J. Paul

34.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

37.

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

Nolte, Nick

38.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Sarton, May

45.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.