Risk Quotes - Page 4

• Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

  Tom Peters

  Long, Interesting, Enough

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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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• What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

  John W. Gardner

  Dream, Spring, Civilization

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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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• I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

  Diane Frolov

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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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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• Daring is not safe against daring men.

  Ovid

  Men, Safe, Daring

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

  Abigail Van Buren

  Taste, Fruit, Said

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Life, Adversity

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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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• Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

  Tom Peters

  Tests, Failing, Risk Management

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

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Karma, Buddhist

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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