Motivational Quotes

Risk

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

- Newman, Henry Cardinal

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

14.

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

Jong, Erica

15.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

17.

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

18.

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

Nolte, Nick

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

21.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Hines, Duncan

23.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

24.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

26.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

27.

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

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

Shaw, P.K.

30.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

31.

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

Joaquin Setanti

32.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

34.

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

Stine, Richard

35.

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

36.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

40.

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

41.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

42.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

43.

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.

44.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

45.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

46.

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

47.

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

Bradbury, Ray

48.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

49.

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

50.

Never tell me the odds.

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