Motivational Quotes

Risk

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

Friedman, Milton

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Julia Sorel

10.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Pilpay

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

Stine, Richard

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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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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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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Kazan, Elia

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

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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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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 only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Katherine Mansfield

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Soul, Julia

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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