Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Aesop

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

Rohn, Jim

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Soul, Julia

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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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

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

Hines, Duncan

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?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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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

Bradbury, 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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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

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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

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

Horace

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Ovid

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.