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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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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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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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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.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Erica Jong

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Stine, Richard

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Havlicek, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, American

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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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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Aesop

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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 play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Patton, George S.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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.