Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Gardner, John W.

?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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Ovid

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

Stine, Richard

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

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

10.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Aesop

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Platen

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

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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 you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

40.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Sculley, John

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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.

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.