Motivational Quotes

Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

17.

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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, American

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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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.

Frost, Robert

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Jong, Erica

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

Collier, Robert

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.