Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Pilpay

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

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

Aesop

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

10.

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

11.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

13.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

18.

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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

25.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

27.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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

36.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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