Motivational Quotes

Risk

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

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

Virgil

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Horace

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rohn, Jim

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

West, Meredith

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

Erica Jong

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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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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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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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Sculley, John

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim