Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Wilcox, Frederick

Best Quotes about Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Kroc, Ray

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Danton, Georges

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Soul, Julia

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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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.

John F. Kennedy

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Platen

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Patton, George S.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

West, Meredith

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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