Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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.

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Julia Sorel

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Erica Jong

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Pilpay

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Aesop

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

Kazan, Elia

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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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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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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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