Risk - Quotes

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Risk: Challenge: Take a Chance: Try:

Success comes to those who continue to risk.

Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

It is scarcely possible to get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work.

Choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance the tide.

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them.

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

If you want to pick the fruit, you have to go out on the limb.
—Shirley MacLaine

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you've gotta suit up for them all.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
—Wayne Gretzky

The pioneers are the ones with arrows in their backs.

Analogy: When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Risk: think of it this way: you're not taking a chance, you're giving yourself a chance.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.
—Sir James Goldsmith (1933–1997)

The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
—Robert Goizueta

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. I have made all the calculations, fate will do the rest.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

To not take a risk is to risk being ignored.

Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
—Erica Jong

If you are not living on the edge, then you are taking up too much room.

To live is to risk and to risk is to live.

Better to begin with doubts and end in certainties than begin with certainties and end in doubts.

You don't need rules, you need tools. Life is either a daring challenge or nothing.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
—Hellen Keller

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
—Andre Gide

Even incredibly smart people end up merely doing well because they become unwilling to risk any change.

In crisis there is danger and opportunity.
—Chinese proverb

Crisis—A Renovation of Your Life. The divine guidance often comes when the horizon is the blackest.
—Mahatma Gandhi

There is a big difference between playing with matches and walking a tightrope over a volcano.

The coin tosser who gets the most 'heads' is the one who gets the most tosses. Given enough chances, chance is your friend.

If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
—Neil Simon, playwright

True risk comes not with action but with comfortable inaction.
—John F. Kennedy

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

You have to risk hell to stroll in heaven.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you don’t you will be wise.

It’s one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but don’t need to. The poor need to take risks, but often can’t afford to.
—Jonathan Clements