Quotes about risk

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

— Aesop

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.

— Alan Alda

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

— Muhammad Ali

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

— Woody Allen

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

— Walter Anderson

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

— Mary Kay Ash

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

— Roy Ash

All serious daring starts from within.

— Joan Baez

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Ray Bradbury

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

— Les Brown

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

— Warren Buffett

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

— James E. Burke

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.

— Dale Carnegie

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

— Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Robert Collier

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

— James B. Conant

Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.

— Confucius

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.

— Mike Conner

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

— Calvin Coolidge

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

— Pierre Corneille

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

— Georges Danton

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

— Madame Dorothe Deluzy

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.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

— Euripides

There's no reward in life without risk.

— Barry J. Farber

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

— William Feather

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

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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

— Milton Friedman

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

— Robert Frost

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]

— Peter Gabriel

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

— John W. Gardner

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

— Lou Gerstner

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

— J. Paul Getty

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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.

— Max Gunther

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

— John Havlicek

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

— Duncan Hines

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

— Horace

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.

— Vladimir Horowitz

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

— Shirley Hufstedler

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

— William James

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

— Jimmy Johnson

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

— Erica Jong

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

— Erica Jong

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

— Elia Kazan

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.

— Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

— Helen Keller

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.

— John F. Kennedy

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

— Marilyn Moats Kennedy

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.

— Victor Kiam

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

— Søren Kierkegaard

To win you have to risk loss.

— Jean Claude Killy

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

— Billie Jean King

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

— Arthur Koestler

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

— Ray Kroc

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

— Julie Krone

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.

— Charles A. Lindbergh

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

— Walter Lippmann

Run for daylight.

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Maxwell Maltz

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.

— Katherine Mansfield

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.

— Cadet Maxim

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

— Pietro Metastasio

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

— Stirling Moss

Who dares wins.

— Motto of the British Special Air Service

Dare to be wise.

— Motto

Never tell me the odds.

— Star Wars - Han Solo Movie

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Henry Cardinal Newman

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?

— Alex Noble

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

— Nick Nolte

Educated risks are the key to success.

— William Olsten

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

— Ovid

Daring is not safe against daring men.

— Ovid

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

— George S. Patton

?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.

— Trina Paulus

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

— Pilpay

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

— Platen

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

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

— Marcel Proust

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

— American Proverb

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

— Arabian Proverb

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.

— Persian Proverb

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.

— Randy Read

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

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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.

— David Lee Roth

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

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

— Alberto Salazar

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

— May Sarton