Motivational Quotes

Risk

Run for daylight.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Nolte, Nick

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Ash, Roy

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

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

Aesop

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

13.

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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

15.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

16.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

18.

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

James, William

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

20.

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

21.

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

Patton, George S.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Stine, Richard

30.

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

31.

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

32.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

34.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

35.

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Sculley, John

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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

39.

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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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

41.

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

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

Virgil

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William