Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Platen

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hines, Duncan

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Horace

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Sculley, John

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

Aesop

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

James, William

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

Jong, Erica

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Gerstner, Lou

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Eliot, T. S.

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.