Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Erica Jong

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pilpay

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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! 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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Patton, George S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

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

Aesop

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

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

Friedman, Milton

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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

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

Sarton, May