Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Joaquin Setanti

Best Quotes about Risk

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ovid

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Pilpay

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

Platen

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

Sarton, May

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Sculley, John

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

Julia Sorel

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

Soul, Julia

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

West, Meredith

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Virgil

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln