Quotes with risk-taking

Quotes 301 till 320 of 367.

  • Abu Sa'id To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Jacob Bronowski To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller To save all we must risk all.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Pierre Corneille To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Jean Claude Killy To win you have to risk loss.
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  • Anne Rice To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sir Anthony Eden We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Ronald Reagan We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Jim Rohn We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • A. B. Yehoshua We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • Casey Affleck We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Asa Hutchinson We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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