Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

2.

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.

3.

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

Koestler, Arthur

4.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

5.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Friedman, Milton

7.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

8.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

9.

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

10.

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

Getty, J. Paul

11.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

12.

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

13.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

14.

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.

15.

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.

16.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

17.

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

18.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

19.

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

Horace

20.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

22.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

23.

?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

24.

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

Frost, Robert

25.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

26.

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

Virgil

27.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

28.

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

Gerstner, Lou

29.

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

Patton, George S.

30.

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

Stine, Richard

31.

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

Hines, Duncan

32.

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

Bradbury, Ray

33.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

34.

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

Joaquin Setanti

35.

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

Pilpay

36.

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

Erica Jong

37.

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

Ovid

38.

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

39.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

Gardner, John W.

43.

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

Shaw, P.K.

44.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

45.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

47.

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

Jong, Erica

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke