Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Ovid

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

Platen

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

Patton, George S.

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Ash, Roy

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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