Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Jong, Erica

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.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

James, William

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Patton, George S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Soul, Julia

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

West, Meredith

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

Burke, James E.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Erica Jong

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Aesop

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

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

41.

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

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

Pilpay

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Shaw, P.K.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.