Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Ash, Roy

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

Koestler, Arthur

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.

John F. Kennedy

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Erica Jong

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

Virgil

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

Hines, Duncan

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Platen

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

32.

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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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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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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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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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