Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Jong, Erica

3.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

5.

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

6.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

7.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

8.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

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

10.

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

Gerstner, Lou

11.

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

Woodberry, George E.

12.

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

13.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

14.

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

Friedman, Milton

15.

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.

16.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

17.

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

Ovid

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Gardner, John W.

22.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

23.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

24.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

25.

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

Havlicek, John

26.

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

Koestler, Arthur

27.

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

Krone, Julie

28.

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

29.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Virgil

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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

38.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

39.

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

Frost, Robert

40.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

41.

?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.