Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Soul, Julia

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

James, William

3.

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

Proverb, American

4.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

5.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

6.

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

Repplier, Agnes

7.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

8.

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

9.

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

Erica Jong

10.

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

11.

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

Julia Sorel

12.

?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

13.

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

Friedman, Milton

14.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

15.

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

Kroc, Ray

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Woodberry, George E.

19.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

20.

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

Bradbury, Ray

21.

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.

22.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

23.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

24.

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

25.

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

Ali, Muhammad

26.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

Getty, J. Paul

28.

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

Toffler, Alvin

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Aesop

31.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

32.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

33.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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