Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Risk

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

James, William

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

Pilpay

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

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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Danton, Georges

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

15.

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

Sculley, John

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

40.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Havlicek, John

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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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

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

Gretzky, Wayne