Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

- Conner, Mike

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Ash, Roy

2.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

3.

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

Julia Sorel

4.

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

5.

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

Moss, Stirling

6.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

7.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

8.

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

Havlicek, John

9.

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

Danton, Georges

10.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

13.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

14.

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

Gardner, John W.

15.

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

Kazan, Elia

16.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

17.

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

Krone, Julie

18.

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

Pilpay

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Shaw, P.K.

21.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

22.

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

Proust, Marcel

23.

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

Horace

24.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

26.

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

27.

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

Hines, Duncan

28.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Platen

32.

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

33.

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

Jong, Erica

34.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

35.

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

Joaquin Setanti

36.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

37.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

38.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

39.

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

Lillian Carter

40.

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

41.

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

Sarton, May

42.

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.

43.

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

Sculley, John

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

46.

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

Gerstner, Lou

47.

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

Collier, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Never tell me the odds.

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