Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Ovid

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Brown, Les

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Collier, Robert

10.

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

Getty, J. Paul

11.

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

Virgil

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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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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

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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.

17.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Soul, Julia

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

Platen

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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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

25.

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

Sarton, May

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

Churchill, Winston

28.

?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

29.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

30.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Toffler, Alvin

32.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

36.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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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

38.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Gardner, John W.

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian