Motivational Quotes

Risk

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Hines, Duncan

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.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

West, Meredith

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

12.

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

Erica Jong

13.

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

Getty, J. Paul

14.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

15.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

17.

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

18.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

19.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

20.

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

Ash, Roy

21.

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

Virgil

22.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

25.

?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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

27.

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

Pilpay

28.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

29.

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

30.

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

Soul, Julia

31.

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.

32.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

33.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Patton, George S.

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

Danton, Georges

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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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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

40.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

41.

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

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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