Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Frost, Robert

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Sculley, John

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Lillian Carter

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Sarton, May

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

35.

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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince