Motivational Quotes

Risk

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

- Moss, Stirling

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Burke, James E.

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

Proverb, American

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

Ash, Mary Kay

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

10.

?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

11.

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

Kazan, Elia

12.

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

13.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

14.

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

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

17.

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

18.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

21.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

22.

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

Nolte, Nick

23.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

24.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

Jong, Erica

27.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

28.

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

29.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Toffler, Alvin

31.

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

Repplier, Agnes

32.

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

West, Meredith

33.

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

Aesop

34.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

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

Hines, Duncan

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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

37.

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

Stine, Richard

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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 true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

40.

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

Platen

41.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

42.

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

Virgil

43.

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

Salazar, Alberto

44.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

49.

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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen