Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

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

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

Sarton, May

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Moss, Stirling

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Patton, George S.

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

James, William

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius