Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Jong, Erica

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Platen

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

Pilpay

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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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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Sarton, May

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

Ovid

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

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Woodberry, George E.

19.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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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.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Eliot, T. S.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Patton, George S.

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Soul, Julia

37.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Allen, Woody

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Lillian Carter

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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