Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Moss, Stirling

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

West, Meredith

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

Shaw, P.K.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Toffler, Alvin

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Patton, George S.

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Brown, Les

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

Aesop

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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.

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pilpay

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Krone, Julie

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

Danton, Georges

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

Hammarskjold, Dag