Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Risk

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

Churchill, Winston

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ash, Roy

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Erica Jong

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

Gerstner, Lou

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

West, Meredith

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

Krone, Julie

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

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Sculley, John

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

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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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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

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

Aesop