Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Danton, Georges

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.

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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Horace

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

Soul, Julia

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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Platen

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

Krone, Julie

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Proverb, American

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rohn, Jim

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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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