Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Horace

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Virgil

10.

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

Bradbury, Ray

11.

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Pilpay

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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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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 win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Aesop

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Jong, Erica

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

Salazar, Alberto

44.

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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!