Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

12.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Virgil

15.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

16.

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

Friedman, Milton

17.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

Danton, Georges

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

26.

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

James, William

27.

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

Krone, Julie

28.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

29.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

31.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

32.

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

33.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

34.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

35.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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

38.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

39.

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

40.

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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Julia Sorel