Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- West, Meredith

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Sculley, John

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Julia Sorel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Jong, Erica

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Krone, Julie

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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 a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Woodberry, George E.

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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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.