Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Pilpay

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

Soul, Julia

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ash, Roy

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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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Sarton, May

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

29.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Sculley, John

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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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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 you never budge, don't expect a push.

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

Aesop

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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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

48.

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

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim