Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Joaquin Setanti

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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.

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

Ali, Muhammad

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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

Stine, Richard

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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

West, Meredith

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Eliot, T. S.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Pilpay

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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?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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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