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Quotes About Risk

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
~ Plutarch
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.
~ Michel Gondry
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
~ Alexander the Great
I've always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks.
~ Christopher Nolan
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
~ Robert H. Schuller
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
~ John Paul Jones
If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
~ C. S. Lewis
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
~ Victor Hugo
Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
~ Garry Winogrand
Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.
~ Cher
great men burn bridges before they come to them
~ e. e. cummings
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
~ John C. Maxwell
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
~ Charles de Gaulle
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
~ Brad Bird
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
~ Octave Mirbeau
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
~ Lewis Carroll
Great things are won by great dangers.
~ Herodotus
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
It is always the adventurous who accomplish great things.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
~ Henry Rollins
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
~ Arthur H. Compton
Who's gonna dare to be great?
~ Muhammad Ali