Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Danton, Georges

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ali, Muhammad

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gerstner, Lou

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Erica Jong

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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

Proverb, American

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

Virgil

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

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

Pilpay

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Kroc, Ray

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Julia Sorel

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince