Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Horace

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Virgil

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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

20.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

21.

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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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

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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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

Jong, Erica

28.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

29.

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

Erica Jong

30.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Pilpay

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

39.

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

Danton, Georges

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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

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Allen, Woody