Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kazan, Elia

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Shaw, P.K.

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.

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

Horace

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Danton, Georges

10.

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

Stine, Richard

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

15.

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

Soul, Julia

16.

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

17.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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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 comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

25.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Patton, George S.

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

29.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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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.

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

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

33.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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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

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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.

Paulus, Trina

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

40.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Jong, Erica

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

West, Meredith

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

49.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Virgil