Motivational Quotes

Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Risk

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Sculley, John

12.

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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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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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

15.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Sarton, May

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

34.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Ovid

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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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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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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.

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Proverb, American

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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.