Motivational Quotes

Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

- Olsten, William

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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.

2.

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

Brown, Les

3.

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

Shaw, P.K.

4.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

5.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

6.

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

7.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

8.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

9.

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

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Ali, Muhammad

14.

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

Aesop

15.

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

Horace

16.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

17.

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

Sculley, John

18.

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

Jong, Erica

19.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

20.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

21.

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

22.

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

Koestler, Arthur

23.

?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

24.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Collier, Robert

26.

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

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.

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

29.

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

30.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

31.

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.

32.

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

Krone, Julie

33.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

34.

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

35.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

36.

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

37.

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

Eliot, T. S.

38.

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

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Frost, Robert

41.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

42.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

43.

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

Friedman, Milton

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Proverb, American

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Churchill, Winston

50.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?