Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Moss, Stirling

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Krone, Julie

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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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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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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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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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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

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

West, Meredith

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

Aesop

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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.