Best risk & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Self Courage Risk Protest Humiliation Readiness

Book:A Sea Change

Source: A Sea Change

“Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.”

Art Self Risk Sorrow Art Is Driven Experimentation

Author:Robert Genn

“Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.”

Inspirational Should Mean Doe Made Self Moments Motivational Waiting Perfect Taken Failing Risk Speed Foolish Preparation Damn Destructive Self Destructive Perfect Moments Torpedoes

Author:David Viscott

“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.”

Ifs Self Seems Running Film Risk Exciting Originals Insight Remarkable Recalls Revealing Appearing Lame Parody

Author:Vincent Canby

“Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others.”

Self Common Courage Risk Danger Higher Highest Claims Worthy Resistance Aggression Limbs Invasion Defence Maintenance Repelling

Book:The Study of Sociology

Source: The Study of Sociology

“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class.”

“Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.”

Self Risk Blood Soldier Treasure Resolution Executing

Author:Shashi Tharoor

“children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

Needs May Children Self Order Challenges Risk Conditions Trauma Being The Best Survivor Tested Therapists Immunity High Risk

Author:Gail Sheehy

“There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.”

Giving Self Voice Natural Forever Knowing Risk Blood Birth Circumstances Intuition Bones Flesh Giving Birth Flesh And Blood New Self

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.”

Self Risk Humiliation Readiness

Book:A Sea Change

Source: A Sea Change

“And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.”

Self Sometimes Memories Grief Risk Possibility Letting Go Painful Visiting

Author:Amy Bloom

“The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.”

“You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.”

Self Risk Protect Degrees Remove Acceptable Protect Yourself

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”

Ifs Years Wells Kind Self Enough School Past Lines Risk Taught Ego Clothes High School Twenties Prepared Lifetime Torture Be Kind Biographies Preservation Flattering Self Preservation Edited

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual analysis or critical thinking. Althought the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make works that "looks like art" and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. (...) Originality is not always rewarded, but some people take real risks and innovate, which gives a raison d'être to the rest”

“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”

May Children Self Jobs Mother Growth Results Risk Helpless Sabotage Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Refutation

Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“In love, self-love is always at risk.”

Love Self Love Is Risk Self Love

Author:Mason Cooley

“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret

“... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.”

People Knows Littles Self Suffering Opportunity Strong Realizing Risk Effects Self Esteem Anxiety Productivity Esteem Uncertainty Destructive Competent

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.”

Way Self Running Chance Risk Taught Confidence Caught Self Confidence

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.”

People Should Self Would Be Responsibility Risk Protect Iraq Violent Horrible Innocent Collectives Syria Defence Self Defence Responsibility To Protect

Author:Tony Abbott

“Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.”

People Mean Self Care Responsibility Accepting Cases Risk Self Care

Book:Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition

Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition

“Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.”

“I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.”

People Should Self Too Much Risk Fearless

Author:Jessica Alba

“But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.”

Soul Self Running Jesus Failing Risk Ignorance Comfort Comfortable Destruction Tragedy Illness My Soul Uncertainty Midst Serving Terrified Complacency Self Serving Comfortable Life

Author:Katie Davis

“Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.”

Ifs Self Risk Crazy Safe True Self Whatever Works

Author:Martha Beck

“The ideal of having a real job that you risk your soul in and make good or be damned, belongs to the heroic age of capitalist enterprise, imbued with self-righteous beliefs about hard work, thrift, and public morals. Such an ideal might still have been mentioned in public fifty years ago; in our era of risk-insured semimonopolies and advertised vices it would be met with a ghastly stillness.”

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.”

Self Moments Sound Memories Risk Demand Bigger Safety True Self Curtains Ovens Timer

Author:Kirby Wright

“We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.”

Men Trying Self Hate Risk Ought Self Love Becoming Victim Revenge Lure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.”

People Ifs World Self Enough Would Be Law Risk Determination Standing International Territory Self Determination International Law Invaders

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.”

Self Risk Core Nerves Free Society Self Indulgent

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.”

Self Whole Risk Combination Breasts Surveillance Reduction Annuals Exam Screening Clinicals High Risk Mri Mastectomy Ultrasounds

Author:Kristi Funk

“To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.”

Self Feelings Laughing Risk Fool Reach Out Sentimental True Self Involvement Appearing Exposing

Author:Leo Buscaglia

“Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source.”

People Thinking Real Self Lying Risk Security Source Employment

Book:The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World

Source: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World

“At one point, for example, [Donald Trump] argued that he knew much more than military leaders about the pursuit and defeat of ISIS. His assuredness of his own correctness seems also rooted in arrogance reflecting his fundamental insecurity. This insecurity and his belief in his own rightness, when combined with his success at making money, leads him to be self-reliant in his decision-making, which could result in his taking risks with threatening or using nuclear weapons.”

“The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.”

Way Feels Believe Wells Has Beens Different Self Hard Done Belief Lines Gone Risk Willing Self Confidence Transformed Grounded Turning Points Dividing Crucible New Self

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.”

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