Risk Quotes

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

William James

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

Alberto Salazar

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Thomas Fuller

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

Georges Danton

Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It's too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they cameand he pushedand they flew...

Christopher Logue, written for a

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Herbert Spencer

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

Robert Collier

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

Duncan Hines

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

Alvin Toffler

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Lee Iacocca

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. They become responsive to grandiose schemes, and will display unequaled steadfastness, formidable energies and a special fitness in the performance of tasks which would stump superior people. It seems paradoxical that defeat in dealing with the possible should embolden people to attempt the impossible, but a familiarity with the mentality of the weak reveals that what seems a path of daring is actually an easy way out: It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings. For when we fail in attaining the impossible we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task.

Eric Hoffer

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

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