Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

James, William

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

Salazar, Alberto

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Collier, Robert

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

10.

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

11.

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

Virgil

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jong, Erica

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

Krone, Julie

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Friedman, Milton

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Ovid

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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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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.

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

Brown, Les

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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

West, Meredith

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.