Great Risk Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

  Phillip Adams

  People, Risk, Extraordinary Things

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Success, Christian, Differences

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• 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

  Life, Stay Positive, Risk

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• Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  "23 Leadership Tips From Oprah Winfrey" by John Greathouse, www.forbes.com. September 27, 2012.

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Buddhist

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• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance

  Dale Carnegie

  Overcoming Addiction, Risk, Chance

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• 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.

  Claude Bissell

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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

  Winston Churchill

  Games, Play, Design

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