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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Koestler, Arthur

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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 don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aesop

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

Sculley, John

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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

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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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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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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

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

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

Ovid

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

Krone, Julie

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

Jong, Erica

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard