Motivational Quotes

Risk

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Best Quotes about Risk

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

James, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jong, Erica

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

West, Meredith

10.

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

11.

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

15.

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

16.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

Moss, Stirling

18.

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

19.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

20.

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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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

22.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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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.

25.

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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

28.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

29.

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

30.

?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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

32.

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

33.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Aesop

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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

37.

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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Julia Sorel

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

49.

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

Frost, Robert