Risking Your Heart Quotes

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

  Geena Davis

  Wisdom, Risk, Ifs

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, 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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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

  John Henry Newman

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivational Sports

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

  Mario Andretti

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

  Billy Wilder

  Trust, Mistake, Failure

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• What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strength, Love You, Heart

  "The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

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• Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  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.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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