Reckless Quotes

• I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

  Angelina Jolie

  Rebel, Causes, Rebels Without A Cause

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• Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

  Frank Warren

  Wise, Brave, Risk

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sentimental

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• Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.

  Walt Whitman

  Deep Water, Soul, Risk

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.655, Simon and Schuster

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• Reckless youth makes rueful age.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Youth

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• Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.

  Tacitus

  Adventure, Hazards, Fool

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• The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Positive, Risk, Sometimes

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• Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top of your bent.

  Violet Trefusis

  Drunk, Brave, Wicked

  Violet Keppel Trefusis, Mitchell Alexander Leaska (1991). “Violet to Vita: the letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21”, Viking Adult

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• Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.

  Charles Duhigg

  Lying, Loss, Decision

  "5 Steps To Analyze Risk In Your Business" by Jason Olsen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2016.

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• No more holding back.
  Be reckless.
  Tell your Love to everybody.

  Rumi

  Holding Back

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• Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

  Choi Hong Hi

  Mountain, Action, Calm

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• Reckless haste makes poor speed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Haste, Speed, Poor

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• I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

  Rhys Ifans

  Taken, Roles, Abyss

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• When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

  Clint Eastwood

  Conservative, Young

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• Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, History, Finding Yourself

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• The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

  Carole Maso

  Gorgeous, Charm, Luminous

  Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press

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• Some part of you will always ... fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That's why you're so reckless in the things you do. You don't hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous

  Richelle Mead

  Passion, Fighting, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.171, Penguin

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• Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Wise, Action, Restraint

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Ecstasy

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Giving, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

  Drake

  Perception, Mischievous, Self Perception

  "On the Cover: Drake". Interview with Claire Hoffman, www.gq.com. April 13, 2012.

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• The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Pride, Men, Common Sense

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• Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Karma, Buddhist

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.244, Thomas Nelson Inc

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