Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Risk

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ash, Roy

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Johnson, Jimmy

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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.

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

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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 want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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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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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

31.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Aesop

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.