Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Burke, James E.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Eliot, T. S.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ash, Roy

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Platen

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

Proverb, American

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Julia Sorel

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

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

West, Meredith

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Jong, Erica

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Soul, Julia

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Erica Jong

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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

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