Motivational Quotes

Risk

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

- Havlicek, John

Best Quotes about Risk

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

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

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

West, Meredith

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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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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Repplier, Agnes

28.

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

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Lillian Carter

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jong, Erica

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

Julia Sorel

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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 willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

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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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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