Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Soul, Julia

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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 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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Allen, Woody

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, American

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

Sculley, John

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Aesop

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

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie