Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gerstner, Lou

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Platen

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

Stine, Richard

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Virgil

11.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Horace

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

Collier, Robert

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

West, Meredith

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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

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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

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

Hines, Duncan

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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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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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.

31.

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Soul, Julia

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

Krone, Julie

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

Nolte, Nick

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

47.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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