Motivational Quotes

Risk

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

- Nolte, Nick

Best Quotes about Risk

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

Aesop

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Collier, Robert

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Stine, Richard

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Platen

16.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

17.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

18.

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

Proverb, American

19.

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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

21.

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

Kazan, Elia

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Pilpay

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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.

27.

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

28.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Soul, Julia

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

32.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Virgil

43.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

44.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

45.

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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

West, Meredith

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.