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

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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.

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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.

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

Sculley, John

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

Erica Jong

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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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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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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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Pilpay

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

Gerstner, Lou

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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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