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

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

Ash, Roy

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Erica Jong

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

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Ovid

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Brown, Les

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Danton, Georges

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

Platen

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?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

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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Krone, Julie

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

Patton, George S.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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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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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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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