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

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Nolte, Nick

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

James, William

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

Proust, Marcel

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Danton, Georges

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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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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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Ovid

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

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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

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

West, Meredith

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Krone, Julie

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out