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

1.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

3.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

4.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

5.

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

6.

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

Erica Jong

7.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

8.

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

9.

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

Horace

10.

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

Soul, Julia

11.

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

Patton, George S.

12.

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

Moss, Stirling

13.

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

Ali, Muhammad

14.

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

Julia Sorel

15.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

16.

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

Gerstner, Lou

17.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

18.

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.

19.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

20.

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

Burke, James E.

21.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

23.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Pilpay

31.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

32.

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

33.

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

Collier, Robert

34.

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

35.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

36.

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

37.

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

Shaw, P.K.

38.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

40.

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

Ovid

41.

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.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

43.

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

Virgil

44.

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

Koestler, Arthur

45.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

46.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

47.

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

Platen

48.

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

49.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

50.

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

Ash, Mary Kay