Risk-taking Quotes - Page 6

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

  Andre Malraux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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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• I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

  Rosalyn Drexler

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Pay The Price, Risk, Bans

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

  John Paul Jones

  Winning, Law, Risk

  "Should young people take risks while volunteering?" by Sally Higham, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• For early employees you want people that have somewhat of a risk-taking attitude.

  Sam Altman

  Attitude, Team, People

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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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• Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

  John Podhoretz

  Jobs, People, Risk

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• Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Shoes, Risk

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• If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

  Neil Gaiman

  Risk, Dare, Ifs

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.142, A&C Black

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• I'm just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for the danger and risk taking, that's what Pete pays me to do. And you and I both know he inteneds to get his money's worth." Jasmine, I cannot-" Why not!" Because you are not food!" I stared at him for a minute; the I started to grin. I couldn't help it. Vayl"-I tried to keep my face straight- "I'm not asking you to eat me.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Risk, Why Not, Asking

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• If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

  Stephen Hunt

  Motivational, Adventurous Life, Space

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• The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Deep Love, Climbing

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.

  David Soul

  Doors, Personality, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Believe, Evil

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