Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Burke, James E.

Best Quotes about Risk

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Salazar, Alberto

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

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

Havlicek, John

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

Danton, Georges

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

Jong, Erica

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Patton, George S.

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

Burke, James E.

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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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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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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sculley, John

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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