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  • Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

    Friends   Fire   Safety  
  • Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

    Death   Suicide   Writing  
    "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.
  • Love and life belongs to great risk.

  • Our lives improve only when we take chances.

    Truth   Honesty   Risk  
  • I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Journal, 10 Oct. 1922
  • Do one thing every day that scares you.

  • My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece.

    Strong   Exercise   Odds  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

    Taken   Safety   Risk  
  • 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?

    Suicide   Men   Fire  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

    Source: collider.com
  • Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

    1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.
  • Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  • Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber
  • Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

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

    "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
  • The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”
  • I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

    Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.408, Simon and Schuster
  • Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

    Love   Karma   Buddhist  
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Years  
  • Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

    "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".
  • Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

    Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Faith is a record of great risks taken.

    Taken   Risk   Records  
  • I'm a terrible sentence finisher. I think that's why I'm a songwriter. When you write a song, there are no rules, and I think that I talk as if there are no rules. But then I run this great risk of no one understanding me at all.

    Running   Song   Writing  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  • I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

    Success   Running   Mean  
    Anthony Trollope (1865). “Can You Forgive Her?”, p.46
  • 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.

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