Motivational Quotes

Risk

Run for daylight.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Risk

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Salazar, Alberto

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hines, Duncan

11.

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

Kazan, Elia

12.

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

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

14.

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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

16.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

17.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

18.

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

Gerstner, Lou

19.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

21.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proust, Marcel

28.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

31.

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

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.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Shaw, P.K.

35.

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

James, William

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

Havlicek, John

41.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

Patton, George S.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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 you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Collier, Robert

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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