Risking Your Life Quotes

• Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christ, Capable

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• Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

  Gene Robinson

  Jesus, Want, Sometimes

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

  Nick Lampson

  Country

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Peace, Men

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• The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Greatness, Safety, Risk

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Courage

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• It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.294, Penguin

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

  Joyce Brothers

  Witty, Hurt, Simple

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• I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

  Joyce Brothers

  Teaching, Learning, Simple

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing" by Larry Chang, (p. 415), 2006.

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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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• Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Stay Positive, Risk

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Risk, Earth, Take A Chance

  Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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