Motivational Quotes

Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Risk

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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

Stine, Richard

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Patton, George S.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

Sculley, John

11.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aesop

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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.

20.

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

Pilpay

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Havlicek, John

28.

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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Salazar, Alberto

33.

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

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

West, Meredith

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

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

Platen

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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