Quotes about risk

"?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 on risk
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

Pilpay on risk
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"Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider."

Platen on risk   

"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 on risk   

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

Proust, Marcel on risk   

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

Proverb, American on risk   

"Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk."

Proverb, Arabian on risk   

"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 on risk   

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

Repplier, Agnes on risk   

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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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 on risk
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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 on risk
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"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."

Roosevelt, Theodore on risk   

"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 on risk
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"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 on risk   

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on risk   

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

Salazar, Alberto on risk
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

Sarton, May on risk
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"To save all we must risk all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on risk   

"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."

Shakespeare, William on risk
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"Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful."

Shakespeare, William on risk   

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

Shaw, P.K. on risk   

"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 on risk
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"Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects."

Simon, Neil on risk
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"Everything is sweetened by risk."

Smith, Alexander on risk   

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"Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall."

Smollett, Tobias G. on risk   

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

Soul, Julia on risk
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"Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold."

Spencer, Herbert on risk   

"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 on risk   

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

Stine, Richard on risk
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"It was a bold person that first ate an oyster."

Swift, Jonathan on risk   

"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."

Syrus, Publilius on risk   

"The loving are the daring."

Taylor, Bayard on risk   

"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."

Thackeray, William M. on risk   

"A man sits as many risks as he runs."

Thoreau, Henry David on risk   

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

Toffler, Alvin on risk
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