Motivational Quotes

Risk

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

- Wilcox, Frederick

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Frost, Robert

2.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

3.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

4.

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.

5.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

6.

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

Aesop

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

12.

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

Gerstner, Lou

13.

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

Sculley, John

14.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

15.

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

Danton, Georges

16.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

17.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

18.

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

Stine, Richard

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Virgil

21.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

22.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

24.

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

25.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

27.

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

Patton, George S.

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

30.

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

Krone, Julie

31.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

32.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

33.

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

Rohn, Jim

34.

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

Gardner, John W.

35.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

40.

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

Pilpay

41.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

42.

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

Kroc, Ray

43.

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

44.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

45.

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

Toffler, Alvin

46.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

47.

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