Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Newman, Henry Cardinal

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Hines, Duncan

6.

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

Rohn, Jim

7.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

8.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

14.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

15.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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.

18.

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

Stine, Richard

19.

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

20.

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

21.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

22.

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

Collier, Robert

23.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

24.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

25.

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

26.

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

Toffler, Alvin

27.

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

28.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

29.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

30.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

31.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

32.

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

33.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

34.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

35.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Repplier, Agnes

39.

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

Krone, Julie

40.

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

Gardner, John W.

41.

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

Sculley, John

42.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

43.

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

Frost, Robert

44.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

45.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

46.

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

Erica Jong

47.

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

48.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

49.

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

Koestler, Arthur

50.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince