Risk Quotes - Page 9

• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

  David Viscott

  Growth, Get Better, Way

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• Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

  Paul Arden

  People, Trying, Ends

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• If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Blame, Breakthrough

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Initiative, Dependency

  Mitt Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2008.

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• I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

  Robert Collier

  World, Safe, Have Faith

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Persistence, Will And Determination

  Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

  J. Paul Getty

  Business, Work, Men

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• Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

  James Bryant Conant

  Motivational, Courage, Funny Inspirational

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Dare, Ifs, Risk-taking

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

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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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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.

  Alice Miller

  Mother, Art, Children

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.9, Basic Books

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• It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

  Mark Nepo

  Suffering, Threshold, Amazed

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.161, Conari Press

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• You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.

  T. J. Thyne

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Courage

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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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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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• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Earth, Take A Chance, Daring To Be Great

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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• Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Commitment, Winning, Greatness

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• There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life

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• Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Pain, Selfish

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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