Swami Vivekananda
Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
"Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!"
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Risk
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Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame."
Alfred Adler
Psychologist
"Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking."
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith."
Virginia Satir
Psychotherapist, Author
"There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf."
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"Great things are achieved only when we take great risks."
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"What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions."
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"Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty"
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"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."
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"I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."
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"Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out."
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"People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty."
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"Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive."
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"Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits."
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"It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
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"Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair."
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"The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks"
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"The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously"
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"When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk."
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"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."
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"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."
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"I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help."
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"An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?"
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