Quotes about risk

To save all we must risk all.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

— John Sculley

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

— Frank Scully

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.

— William Shakespeare

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

— P.K. Shaw

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

— Barbara Sher

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.

— Neil Simon

Everything is sweetened by risk.

— Alexander Smith

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

— Tobias G. Smollett

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

— Julia Soul

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

— Herbert Spencer

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.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

— Richard Stine

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

— Jonathan Swift

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

— Publilius Syrus

The loving are the daring.

— Bayard Taylor

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.

— William M. Thackeray

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Alvin Toffler

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

— Source Unknown

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

— Source Unknown

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

— Source Unknown

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

— Source Unknown

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

— Source Unknown

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

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

— Virgil

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

— Denis Waitley

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Meredith West

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

— Leslie Wexner

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

— Frederick Wilcox

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

— Nathaniel P. Willis

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

— Flip Wilson

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

— Oprah Winfrey

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

— George E. Woodberry

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

— George E. Woodberry

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

— John Paul Jones

It doesn't have to be true. And you don't have to be the best. The only thing truly necessary, is the ability to make others believe your ruse.

— Tousignant Maximillian Guy

our resilient hopes and opportunities often under jeopardy".

— Ravindran