Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Salazar, Alberto

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Burke, James E.

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

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

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

Brown, Les

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Collier, Robert

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

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

Pilpay

13.

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

Platen

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

Erica Jong

18.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

21.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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

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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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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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

33.

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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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

Krone, Julie

37.

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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

40.

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

Aesop

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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Salazar, Alberto

47.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Virgil

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon