Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Rohn, Jim

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sculley, John

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

Proverb, American

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

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

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Bradbury, Ray

10.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

11.

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

12.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

13.

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

Aesop

14.

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.

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

16.

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

Koestler, Arthur

17.

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

Pilpay

18.

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

Collier, Robert

19.

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

Ali, Muhammad

20.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

James, William

25.

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

Salazar, Alberto

26.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

27.

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

28.

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

Gardner, John W.

29.

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

30.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

32.

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

33.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

34.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

35.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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

38.

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.

39.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

40.

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

41.

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

Danton, Georges

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

Shaw, P.K.

43.

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

46.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

47.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

48.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

49.

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

50.

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

Gerstner, Lou