Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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.

2.

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

Eliot, T. S.

3.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

4.

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

5.

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

Soul, Julia

6.

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

7.

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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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

9.

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

Krone, Julie

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Virgil

13.

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

14.

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

Burke, James E.

15.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

16.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

17.

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

Bradbury, Ray

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

20.

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

Patton, George S.

21.

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

22.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

23.

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

West, Meredith

24.

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

25.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

26.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

27.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

28.

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

Gerstner, Lou

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

31.

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

32.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

33.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

34.

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

James, William

35.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

36.

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

37.

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

Ash, Roy

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

39.

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

Proust, Marcel

40.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

41.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

43.

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

44.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

45.

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

Ovid

46.

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

Horace

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

49.

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

Shaw, P.K.

50.

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