Quotes with risk-taking

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brene Brown Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Sigmund Freud Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Erica Jong Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Camille Pissarro Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Brit Morin Don't let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don't let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Bob Graham During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bernard L. Schwartz Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
    Bernard L. Schwartz
    American businessman (1925 - )
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  • George Eliot Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ayn Rand Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.
    The Objectivist februari 1971
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Berenice Bejo Even in the very beginning when she would bump into George Valentine and people would start taking pictures of her, she never thought, 'I'm with George Valentine. I need to get a picture with him." She's like "oh that's funny. Everyone's taking pictures!
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Eric Allenbaugh Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
    Eric Allenbaugh
    American motivator
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  • Mary Cholmondeley Every day 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 that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  • Bruce Willis Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Willis Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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