Motivational Quotes

Risk

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

- Kazan, Elia

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Ali, Muhammad

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Salazar, Alberto

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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

10.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

11.

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

Hines, Duncan

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Aesop

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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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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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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 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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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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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Platen

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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Krone, Julie

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

Burke, James E.

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

Virgil

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

Proust, Marcel

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Gretzky, Wayne