Motivational Quotes

Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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

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

Ovid

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

Collier, Robert

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Soul, Julia

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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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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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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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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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius