Quotes about risk

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

Aesop on risk
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on risk
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay on risk
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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 on risk
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"All serious daring starts from within."

Baez, Joan on risk
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"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on risk   

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

Bradbury, Ray on risk
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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 on risk
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"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

Buffett, Warren on risk
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"We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures."

Burke, James E. on risk
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"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 on risk
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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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 on risk   

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

Conant, James B. on risk   

"Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination."

Confucius on risk
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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 on risk   

"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."

Coolidge, Calvin on risk
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"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on risk
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"In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare."

Danton, Georges on risk
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"Perseverance and audacity generally win!"

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on risk   

"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. on risk   

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."

Eliot, T. S. on risk
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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 on risk   

"The bold are helpless without cleverness."

Euripides on risk   

"There's no reward in life without risk."

Farber, Barry J. on 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 on risk   

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

Forbes, Malcolm S. on risk
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"Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet."

Friedman, Milton on risk   

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

Frost, Robert on risk
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"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 on risk   

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

Gardner, John W. on risk
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"Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out."

Gerstner, Lou on risk   

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

Getty, J. Paul on risk   

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

Gretzky, Wayne on risk
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"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 on risk
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Hammarskjold, Dag on risk
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