Motivational Quotes

Risk

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Risk

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Ash, Roy

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

Pilpay

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

10.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

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

Horace

12.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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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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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

21.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Gerstner, Lou

24.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

28.

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

Moss, Stirling

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Aesop

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

West, Meredith

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

40.

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

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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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?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.