Motivational Quotes

Risk

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Sculley, John

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.