Reckless Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Reckless youth makes rueful age.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Age, Youth

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

  Frank Warren

  Wise, Brave, Risk

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

  Rumi

  Holding Back

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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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• 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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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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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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• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  Karl Marx

  Philosophical, Health, Length Of Life

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.296, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Puff, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 47

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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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• In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike--and they will--you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Horse, Disappointment

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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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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Drinking, Wine

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

  Christopher

  Recovery, Mean, Goal

  "Superman star Christopher Reeve passes away" by Brian B., movieweb.com. October 11, 2004.

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• Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.' … I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

  Justin Bieber

  Artist, Men, Who I Am

  "Justin Bieber Reveals Will Smith Counsels Him Weekly in Rare, Raw Interview" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 20, 2013.

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• No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

  Rudyard Kipling

  New York, Reflection, Pigs

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.4529, Delphi Classics

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• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring, Desire, Energy

  Elisabeth Elliot (2010). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.43, Hendrickson Publishers

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