Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

James, William

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.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

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

Erica Jong

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Soul, Julia

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Jong, Erica

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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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

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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