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Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it. -- Seth Godin
Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me. -- Diane Wilson
Sometimes Life Is About Risking Everything For A Dream No One Can See But You. -- Nancy Ebrahim
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility. -- Paul Keating
Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible. -- Ronnie Oldham
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. -- John Tesh
Get-rich-quick thinking leads to three basic errors: (1) Getting involved with things you cannot understand; (2) Risking funds you cannot afford to lose, that is, borrowed funds; and (3) Making hasty decisions. Each of these actions violates one or more biblical principles... Together they constitute a sin called greed. -- Larry Burkett
A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it. -- Dan Jenkins
Living is risking. -- Jeanne Moreau
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. -- Nick Lampson
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. -- Anais Nin
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal. -- Carol Alt
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources. -- Barbara Mikulski
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. -- Christopher Hitchens
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for. -- Leslie Cockburn
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us. -- Guy Laliberte
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.' -- Steven Seagal
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. -- William James
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. -- Simone de Beauvoir
If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen. -- Cassandra Clare
I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid. -- Ben Stein
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. -- Spencer Bachus
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
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. -- Hillary Clinton
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. -- Daniel Ellsberg
Our lives are pretty calm. Merging on the freeway in the closest you get to risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. -- Oren Peli
I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm. -- Foster Friess
The biggest risk in life is not risking. -- Robert Anthony
You can't even stand without risking to fall. -- Nick Vujicic
No art ever came out of not risking your neck. -- Eudora Welty
Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her. -- Ilsa J Bick
Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you. -- Matthew Quick
Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting. -- Carolyn McCulley
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising -- John Stuart Mill
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ. -- Pope John Paul II
I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone. -- Vincent Van Gogh
It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours. -- Oprah Winfrey
In being vulnerable, we reach for our greatest need while risking our greatest pain. -- Danny Silk
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. -- Judith Butler
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal -- Carol Alt
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. -- Cassandra Clare
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it. -- Bear Grylls
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for. -- Todd Skinner
No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day. -- Jack Smith
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. -- William James
A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor. -- Mo Yan
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. -- Carre Otis
Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. -- Gianfranco Fini
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity -- Keith Ferrazzi
Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time. -- Violet Cross
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. -- Vernor Vinge
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love. -- Lauren Kate
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. -- Erica Jong
The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought. -- Sheri S. Tepper
Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live. -- Richard Strozzi-Heckler
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure. -- Ivan Krastev
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable. -- Philippa Perry
Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kenya is risking sanctions from international competition because international organisations think we are not addressing the problem in line with world best practice. -- Kipchoge Keino
The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives. -- Arthur Nersesian
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life. -- John W. Gardner
Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget! -- Israelmore Ayivor
I've never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don't have and don't need. -- Warren Buffett
I'm not interested in waiting around and risking the who-knows and the what-ifs and the huge regrets. I want to feel all of it.... -- Tahereh Mafi
A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the country we love. -- Tony Meloto
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer. -- Niall Ferguson
The more we practice risking to leap, the more proficient we become, the more our fears melt away, and we grow ever stronger in the doing. -- Gloria Feldt
She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. -- Nicholas Sparks
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. -- Antonin Artaud
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources -- Barbara Mikulski
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
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama. -- Asif Kapadia
Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest? -- Chuck Palahniuk
Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates. -- Philip K. Dick
The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love. -- Adele Devine
Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel. -- Charlie Haden
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection. -- Robert Grudin
When we consider the promises of Christ, risking everything we are and everything we have for His sake is no longer a matter of sacrifice. It's just common sense. -- David Platt
Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything. -- Leoluca Orlando
In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest. -- Mike Dooley
I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Never risk more than 1% of total account equity on any one trade. By risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade. Keeping your risk small and constant is absolutely critical. -- Larry Hite
If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be. -- Nikki Giovanni
Luke warm people are continually concerned with playing it safe; they are slaves to the god of control. This focus on safe living keeps them from sacrificing and risking for God. -- Francis Chan
I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career. -- Criss Jami
There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best. -- Tim Hansel
That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside. -- Robert F. Engle
I've been thanking God for you being there. For you risking your life for Dove. I'll never forget it, Tyler. I'll never forget you....""Truth is, Lily, I'll never forget you either. -- Debra Holland
He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life. -- F.X. Toole
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing. -- Gene Robinson
By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is. -- Charles L. Whitfield
If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life -- Richelle Mead
I had the chance to witness the evolution of the Nuclear Deal into Dr. Singh's legacy as he assiduously, piece by piece, crafted the Indo-US nuclear deal against all odds, including risking his government. -- Sunil Mittal
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us." -- Guy Laliberte
It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers -- Fred Brooks
If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you. -- Paul Haggis

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