Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Danton, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Jimmy

10.

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

11.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

12.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

13.

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

14.

?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

15.

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

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

18.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

19.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

20.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

21.

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

Pilpay

22.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

23.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

Kroc, Ray

25.

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

26.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

27.

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

Soul, Julia

28.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

29.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

30.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

33.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

34.

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

35.

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

Virgil

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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.

Conner, Mike

38.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

39.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

40.

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

Kazan, Elia

41.

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

Repplier, Agnes

42.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

43.

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

44.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

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

46.

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

Woodberry, George E.

48.

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

Salazar, Alberto

49.

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