Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Ash, Roy

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.

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

Soul, Julia

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Ali, Muhammad

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

James, William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Rohn, Jim

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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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

Patton, George S.

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

Pilpay

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Koestler, Arthur

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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