Great Risk Quotes - Page 3

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

  George Herbert

  Inspiration, Greatness, Cynical

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.317

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

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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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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• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Wisdom, Learning, School

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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  You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

  Chuck Yeager

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

  Joyce Brothers

  Teaching, Learning, Simple

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 415), 2006.

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

  Elizabeth May

  Fear, Trying Something New, Ark

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• 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

  Perseverance, What If, Dirt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

  Barbara Sher

  Time, Play, Design

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.47, Dell

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• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Happiness, Bad Day, Cutting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

  Will Rogers

  Leadership, Summer, Risk

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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

  Suicide, Men, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Expectations

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• The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Greatness, Safety, Risk

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• The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Failure

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

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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 coarse 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

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4008, Delphi Classics

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• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

  Paul Tillich

  Failure, Design, Risk

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