Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

Hines, Duncan

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

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Woodberry, George E.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Sculley, John

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

Ovid

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Soul, Julia

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

Eliot, T. S.

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Burke, James E.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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