Motivational Quotes

Risk

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Collier, Robert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sculley, John

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

James, William

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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Stine, Richard

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Erica Jong

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

Proverb, American

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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 bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Proust, Marcel

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Julia Sorel

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

Sarton, May