Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sarton, May

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.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, American

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

Pilpay

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Platen

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

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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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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 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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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

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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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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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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.

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

West, Meredith

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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

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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

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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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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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