Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Woodberry, George E.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Proust, Marcel

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Platen

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Ovid

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Krone, Julie

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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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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Pilpay

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

Proverb, American

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Aesop

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Erica Jong

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Soul, Julia

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace