Risk Quotes - Page 4

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Pat Conroy

Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.171, Open Road Media

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To save all we must risk all.

Friedrich Schiller

Sea

"Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, Sc vi, 1783.

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Life, Courage

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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

Holly Near

Bridges, Water, Gone

Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Abigail Van Buren

Taste, Fruit, Said

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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

Success, Power, Differences

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It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Happiness, Running

Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.119, Cornell University Press

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

William Feather

Ninety Nine, Done, Hundred

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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

Happiness, Hurt, Order

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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

Robert Falcon Scott

Causes, Mountain Climbers, Last Words

Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.422, Oxford University Press

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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

J. B. Priestley

Inspirational, Men, Shy

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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

John Updike

Artist, Excess, Literature

John Updike (2012). “Assorted Prose”, p.189, Random House

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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Blair

Opportunity, Stakes, Caution

"Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Tom Peters

Tests, Failing, Risk Management

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It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Challenges, Easy, Easy Things

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I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

Jim Carrey

Being Happy, Passion, Careers

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If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

Drew Barrymore

Adventure, Carpe Diem, Soul

"My Date With Drew" by Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Garrison Keillor

Inspirational, Life, Adversity

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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Vaclav Havel

Inspirational, Funny, Running

"Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 2: "Writing for the Stage", 1990.

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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Maimonides

Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Decisions Made

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to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Bob Marley

Love, Life, Pain

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

Oscar Wilde

Single Mom, Weakness, Care

Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Childhood, Presidential

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... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle.

Margaret Atwood

Thinking, Talking, Eggs

Margaret Atwood (1999). “The Edible Woman”, Emblem Editions

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