Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Quotes on RISK TAKING

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
— Paul Hogan

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
— Jimmy Johnson , Dallas Cowboys Coach

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
— T.S. Eliot

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness"
-Napoleon Hill

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps"
-David Lloyd George

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk".
-Unknown Author

"Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together"
-Earl Nightingale

"Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet"
-German proverb

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference"
-Robert Frost

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow"
-Ronald. E. Osborn

"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"
-Maxwell Maltz

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.”
-Cher quotes (American Singer and Actress, b.1946)

“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
-Paulo Coelho quotes (Mystical author, one of Brazil's most successful novelist)

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
-General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

“No noble thing can be done without risks”
-Michel de Montaigne quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)


"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved but at what he aspires to"
-Kahlil Gibran

"There is as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something"
-Trammell Crow

"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living"
-Stephen Covey

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything" -Bishop W. C. Magee

You cannot discover New Oceans Unless You have the Courage to Lost Sight of the Shore

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory" -Pierre Corneille

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