Motivational Quotes

Risk

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

- Johnson, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Risk

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Shaw, P.K.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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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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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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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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

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

Virgil

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

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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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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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Soul, Julia

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

Pilpay

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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