Motivational Quotes

Risk

To win you have to risk loss.

- Killy, Jean Claude

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Ovid

3.

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

Frost, Robert

4.

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

5.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

6.

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

Jong, Erica

7.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

8.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

9.

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

10.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

11.

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

Burke, James E.

12.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

13.

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

Virgil

14.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

15.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

16.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Krone, Julie

20.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

21.

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

22.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

23.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

25.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

26.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

27.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

28.

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

29.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

30.

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

Proverb, American

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Getty, J. Paul

34.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

35.

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

36.

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

Erica Jong

37.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

42.

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

44.

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

Bradbury, Ray

45.

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

Sculley, John

46.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

47.

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

48.

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

Platen

49.

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

50.

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

Soul, Julia