Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Getty, J. Paul

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

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Soul, Julia

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Erica Jong

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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

11.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Burke, James E.

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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 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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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

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Platen

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

Ovid

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

Woodberry, George E.

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Stine, Richard

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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 err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Moss, Stirling

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

West, Meredith

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Proverb, American

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren