Risk Quotations
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| It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. | |||
| - Philip Adams | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. | |||
| - Brooks Atkinson | |||
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| Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for. | |||
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| Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. | |||
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| Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. | |||
| - Napoleon Bonaparte | |||
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| Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings. | |||
| - Warren Buffet | |||
| Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. | |||
| - Warren Buffet | |||
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| I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. | |||
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton | |||
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| Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Dare to be naive. | |||
| - Buckminster Fuller | |||
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| The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. | |||
| - Shakti Gawain | |||
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| It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. | |||
| - André Gide | |||
| One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. | |||
| - André Gide | |||
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| We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. | |||
| - David Grayson | |||
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| You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. | |||
| - Wayne Gretzky | |||
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| When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. | |||
| - Cynthia Heimel | |||
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| Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. | |||
| - Herodotus | |||
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| Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
| Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
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| If you don't risk anything you risk even more. | |||
| - Erica Jong | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. | |||
| - Robert F. Kennedy | |||
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| To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. | |||
| - Soren Kierkegaard | |||
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| The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. | |||
| - Mignon McLaughlin | |||
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| The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. | |||
| - Jawaharlal Nehru | |||
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| And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. | |||
| - Anaïs Nin | |||
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| Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. | |||
| - George S. Patton | |||
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| I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. | |||
| - Pablo Picasso | |||
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| Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? | |||
| - Jean Jacques Rousseau | |||
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| What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? | |||
| - Robert H. Schuller | |||
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| It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. | |||
| - John A. Shedd | |||
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| What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? | |||
| - Logan Pearsall Smith | |||
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| You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. | |||
| - James Thurber | |||
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| There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. | |||
| - Vauvenargues | |||
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| What you risk reveals what you value. | |||
| - Jeanette Winterson | |||