Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is a risk.

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Ash, Roy

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Platen

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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Collier, Robert

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Patton, George S.

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

James, William

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Proverb, American

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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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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