Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jong, Erica

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

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

?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

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

Proverb, American

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Lillian Carter

13.

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Burke, James E.

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

Krone, Julie

17.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

21.

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

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

31.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

33.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

34.

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

Sculley, John

35.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Soul, Julia

38.

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

Jong, Erica

39.

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

40.

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

Kazan, Elia

41.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

42.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

43.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

44.

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

45.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

46.

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

Sarton, May

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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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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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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.