Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Toffler, Alvin

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Virgil

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Proverb, American

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

10.

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

11.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

12.

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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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

17.

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

Patton, George S.

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

James, William

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

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

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

West, Meredith

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

Aesop

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

Horace

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

Pilpay

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

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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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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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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