Motivational Quotes

Risk

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rohn, Jim

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

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

James, William

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Soul, Julia

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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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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Burke, James E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Stine, Richard

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Pilpay

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