Motivational Quotes

Risk

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Risk

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

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

Stine, Richard

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

Friedman, Milton

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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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

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

Soul, Julia

19.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

23.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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

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

Pilpay

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

Patton, George S.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

West, Meredith

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Aesop

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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

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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

Joaquin Setanti