Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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.

2.

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

Sculley, John

3.

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

Allen, Woody

4.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

5.

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

Aesop

6.

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.

7.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

8.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

9.

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

Kazan, Elia

10.

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

11.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

12.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Proverb, American

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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.

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

20.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

21.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Ash, Roy

23.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

24.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

25.

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

Krone, Julie

26.

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

27.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

28.

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

29.

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

Havlicek, John

30.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

31.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

32.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

Patton, George S.

34.

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

West, Meredith

35.

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

Danton, Georges

36.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

37.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

38.

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

Burke, James E.

39.

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

Woodberry, George E.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

44.

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

45.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

46.

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

47.

?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

48.

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.

John F. Kennedy

49.

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

Ovid

50.

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