Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

- Noble, Alex

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Pilpay

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

Platen

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Nolte, Nick

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

10.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

11.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

12.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Woodberry, George E.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

29.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

30.

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

31.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

33.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Horace

38.

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

Patton, George S.

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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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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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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