c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you don't want better but just what is YOURS..
— RD
Women rarely need the things they want
— Alessandra Torre, Sex Love Repeat
If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If I had wings I would fly,I'd soar on high where only eagles dareI'd let them rip, I'd let them tear, until all that remained was me bare.
— Michelle Horst, Wake Me Up
It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.
— Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons
But I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Excessive want is a form of desperation and a declaration of lack.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I want you to be my black vulture:forever monogamous!
— Munia Khan
Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.
— Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley
You can have the love you want, if you can afford its price tag. For every love has its price, monetary or non-monetary.
— Antwi Isaac - BORN2WIN.
What exactly is it you want?
— Isabelle Rowan, Ink
You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.
— Meredith Wild, Hardwired
I love your laugh. I want to hear it every day. I want to be through all this darkness and devastation. I want happiness now. I want our due. I want what we’ve deserved from the beginning.” He paused and stared deep into her eyes, willing her to understand how much he loved her. “I want you.
— Sarah MacLean, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.
— John Vanbrugh
You’re right, I do indeed want you. That doesn’t change the fact that you’re an asshole.
— Lexi Cubbins
I don't want what I can't have. I don't want to want what I can't have. -Nate
— Lori L. Otto, Lost and Found
I don't understand', I say,'why they care what I think, as long as I'm acting how they want me to.''You're acting how they want you to now', he says,'but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain tells you to do something else, something they don't want?
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, saysmore. Means more."He took the hand she held out to him. "We'll go down. James should be here soon
— Nora Roberts, The Villa
Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.
— Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?
— Sarah MacLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
I know I had no right to do this to you, but if you ask me if I regret it, I will answer you no. If you ask me if I’d do it again, I’d say yes. I would do it again and again and again. There is a darkness in me that lives and breathes just like yours, except it’s motivated by love, and not by pain.
— Angela Richardson, All the Pieces
I felt need. It was you. I can never allow myself to need you. So, my only choice is to make you need me, because ridding myself of you is no longer an option.
— Renea Mason, Symphony of Light and Winter
If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.
— Kenneth
I can’t need you, but I need you to need me. I know that makes me a selfish bastard but it’s all I can offer.
— Renea Mason, Symphony of Light and Winter
In life we do not attract what we want, we attract who we are.
— Moffat Machingura, How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
I’ll never let you go again,Melanie.Never.Nothing will come between us...nothing."I would destroy anything,and anyone who tried to take her from me.Being away from her was no longer an option.She was mine.Only mine.
— A.L. Jackson, Pulled
It was need, Linden. I don’t want to need anything. I can make. I can destroy. Need implies something controls me and nothing controls me.
— Renea Mason, Symphony of Light and Winter
Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it's like they say, if you're not a rebel by the age of 20, you got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by 30, you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, "What do you really want?
— George Huang, Swimming with Sharks
When you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
What do you want ?"It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I’d probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.
— Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Your success is dependent upon what you do when you do not want to.
— M.F. Moonzajer
My heartfelt appreciation goes out to Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, John Barton, Barry Dempster, Carolyn Forché and Elizabeth Philips for their masterful eyes and minds.
— Leigh Kotsilidis, Hypotheticals
I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
— Richard Paul Evans, A Step of Faith
If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.
— Kim Harrington, The Dead and Buried
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
— Lorraine Heath, In Bed with the Devil
Everyone has something they can't live without.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.
— Catherine Sanderson, Petite Anglaise
Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.
— Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
If you do not waste, you do not want.
— Syed Ather
This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--""You.""What was that?""I Want You.
— Johanna Lindsey, Once a Princess
Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.
— Suzanne Collins
Most of the non-profit organizations are owned from the wealthy rich philanthropists but are managed and run from poor philanthropists.
— Zybejta Beta Metani'Marashi
If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.
— Robert Rolih, The Million Dollar Decision : Get Out of the Rigged Game of Investing and Add a Million to Your Net Worth
When Mohamed Ali started calling himself, "I'm the Greatest", he wasn't actually the greatest. This means that you don't need to be successful before you can talk about success or you don't need to be wealthy before you can talk about wealth creation.Saying positive things on your dreams is the first step of experiencing success in real life.
— Oscar Bimpong
You should never be satisfied with a little if you are capable of using and enjoying more.
— Abhishek  Kumar, The Richest Engineer
Operate your household like a productive business.
— Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americas Wealthy
Thou shalt not invest in a needless business. Thou shalt not trade time for money. Thou shalt not operate on a limited scale. Thou shalt not relinquish control. Thou shalt not let a business startup be an event over process.
— M.J. DeMarco
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.
— H.W. Charles, The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)
— Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensees
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 F. Drucker
Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes. “You’re less like your father than I thought,” he said finally, a definite coolness in his voice. “The risk would’ve been what made it fun for James.”“Look —”“Well, I’d better get going . . . I’ll write to tell you a time I can make it back into the fire, then, shall I? If you can stand to risk 
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
— Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
— Pierre Corneille
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
— Tacitus
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out of the window.
— Dick Francis, Dead Cert
You won't be a wiser man if you always keep away from bad people or poor ones.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
— Shirley M Hufstedler
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
— Patrick Overton
There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.
— Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You
Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.
— Oswald Chambers
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
— Margaret Atwood
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.
— Peter Heller, Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
— Clint Eastwood
All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.
— Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
— Allan Frewin Jones, The Lost Queen
The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.
— Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.
— Sigmund Freud, The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
— Seneca
Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,dare to speak but not to be known.
— Toba Beta
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
— Geena Davis
Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.
— Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
and I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights.""No", she said. "Not particularly.""Only missteps."She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? "I was afraid," she said carefully. "For a very long time. But no longer." "So was I," he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her.
— Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You
When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It's a high roller's type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.
— Na, I'll Be Seeing You
Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.
— Adam Burch, Song of Edmon
Do not risk your life for someone who does not care about you.
— Gift Gugu Mona
No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.
— Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns
I don’t want safety or guarantees—I want a life worth living.I want to jump off a skyscraperAnd fashion a parachute on the way downOut of my fears and trepidationsBecause sometimes survivalIsn’t the most important thingAnd survivingIsn’t the same as living.
— Justin Wetch, Bending The Universe
We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.
— Rob Bell, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.
— Rob Bell, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living
Without risk, life is far too predictable
— Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist
Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Gaps: Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Digital Business
Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.
— Chuck Wendig
Risk all to find the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take the risk! You find the right road!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take the risk! You will find the right road.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A surprise visit? That's so romantic...but fairly risky." "If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.
— Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop
... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.
— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
Love risk when making money. Hate risk when investing money.
— Robert Rolih, The Million Dollar Decision : Get Out of the Rigged Game of Investing and Add a Million to Your Net Worth
There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.
— Nick Vujicic, Life Without Limits
You're safe here. Perfectly safe. That phrase still haunts me. Haunts me because it's always been a lie. It was a lie before they came and it's still a lie. You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything. Otherwise, you're just a walking corpse. You're a zombie.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
If love finds you again, don’t fight it. Don’t let grief hold you back. Love is a risk. There are no guarantees. But, in the end, it is always, always worth it.
— J.L. Berg, When You're Ready
You are Entering the Red Zone.Proceed at Own Risk.When in Doubt Run.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.
— Craig Groeschel, Dare to Drop the Pose: Ten Things Christians Think but Are Afraid to Say
Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Do not risk your life for someone who doesn't care about you.
— Gugu Mona
The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
— Harry Haskell, Maiden Flight: A Novel
No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however passive that mobility was. Once the first root is extended, the plant will never again enjoy any hope (however feeble) of relocating to a place less cold, less dry, less dangerous. Indeed, it will face frost, drought, and greedy jaws without any possibility of flight. The tiny rootlet has only once chance to guess what the future years, decades -- even centuries -- will bring to the patch of soil where it sits. It assesses the light and humidity of the moment, refers to its programming, and quite literally takes the plunge.
— Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
Risk is part of the game.
— Victoria Aveyard, Cruel Crown
I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air?
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games
—  no interesting victory is ever assured.
It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.
— Roger Parkinson, The War in the Desert
You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.
— Martina Boone, Persuasion
Do you ride?” That sounded sort of dirty, and the way he looked at me felt sort of dirty, too. No one ever looked at me like that.“Why ‘Ghost’?” I asked.Grasping the top of the car door, he leaned over it and spoke in a dramatic, foreboding voice. “Because she’s so fast she disappears down the streets at night.”“That sounds dangerous.”His dimple appeared. “The best things in life are.
— Jenn Bennett, The Anatomical Shape of a Heart
[But] you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your heart.....drive in.
— Kunal Nayyar, Yes, My Accent Is Real: and Some Other Things I Haven't Told You
There’s risk inherent in most things that matter.
— Alexis  Hall, For Real
Sure, safety is, well, safe, but will it help me achieve the things I really want for my life?
— Kayt Sukel, The Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and Chance
Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to take risks, to haunt the edges of things.
— Paul Auster
Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.
— Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game
The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
You have to risk falling to be able to fly.
— Debasish Mridha
Everything worth anything is worth risk.
— Matthew Donnelly
No low-trust society will ever produce sustained innovation.
— Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
do not just take a risk ; take the risk. When you are taking the risk, ponder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
— Sunday Adelaja
It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.
— Patricia C. Wrede, Thirteenth Child
Careful had never really been her style.
— Tiffany Quay Tyson, Three Rivers
We stand the risk of backwardness, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
The greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.
— Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
You stand the risk of misfortunes, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibility of disapointmet, but also the possiblity of true happiness
— Morten Høgsberg
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
— J. Paul Getty
You stand the risk of bankruptcy, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
— Sunday Adelaja
We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.
— Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away all the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle--oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look like me like a boy and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it's not the middle but will last forever.
— John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
Give yourself permission to Risk. It is only in risk that one finds success.
— Todd Stocker, Becoming The Fulfilled Leader
For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.
— A.M. Homes
Ours was such a delicious risk.My being abruptly and altogetherEcstatic and be-stilled.
— Scott Hastie
If you like tiger cubs,you got to get into the den!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.Which is to say: there are no rules.Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.
— Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’s risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That’s because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that’s the case, we may choose not to risk.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
As de Saussure said, risk-taking brings with it its own reward: it keeps a "continual agitation alive" in the heart. Hope, fear. Hope, fear - this is the fundamental rhythm of mountaineering. Life, it frequently seems in the mountains, is more intensely lived the closer one gets to its extinction: we never feel so alive as when we have nearly died.
— Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
And then there is 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.
— Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
When you fear falling, you never get off the ground.
— Addison Killebrew
Once I get something going well, I'll risk fucking it up just for the action.
— Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
— Ryan Lilly
I think the real problem is that you're afraid. Afraid of real love, and what it looks like, because you don't know what it is. The thing is, love is a risk, no matter what. It's just a risk you don't need to be afraid of taking.
— Melody Jackson, The Dragon Within
Every  person’s  life  should  include  one  reckless  moment.
— Julie McSorley Marcus McSorley
Absolutely, love matters,” she reiterated. “We forget that at our own risk.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life without risk is a life that is benign and sterile.
— Alex T. Wilson
Don't be afraid to start small, entrepreneurship takes courage to win, and look for quick wins while setting a short and long term vision
— Desmond Oshifeso
I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it.
— K.A. Linde, Off the Record
I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.
— Aleksandar Marinkov
You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
For God's sake, Gwen," he said gently. "What matter that I love you. That's not the bit that's always been missing."Her lips parted. They wished to ask a question she could not bear to bring herself to ask. He was never less than honest. The answer, than, was bound to be wrong."So she did not ask it as a question. "You won't leave me," she said.He drew a long breath. "There," he said, quietly, fiercely. "That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen." His hands closed on her wrists, tightening until she swallowed and found her courage and looked up at him. "I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.
— Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You
Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.
— Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System
Risk is what you control and fortune is really all about risk. Bottom Line: Fortune comes from big money bets on very low probability events
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Love always requires courage and involves risk.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
— Reid Hoffman
Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent.
— Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man who knows the only things worth doing are the things might break your heart.
— Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness
They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and nationality, who were thoroughly miserable.' 'So you believe in taking the chance?' 'Certainly. What is life without some risk?
— Elizabeth Peters, Tomb of the Golden Bird
Jim turned his head slowly to look into my eyes and shuddered. “It’s the closest I’ve ever felt to dying.
— Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.
— David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Derivatives - The risk never leaves the system - It finds taker who believes the risk is acceptable....until they lose everything.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
— Roberto Goizueta
Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.
— Doug   Cooper, Outside In
We see the world as less random than it actually is.
— Nassim Taleb
I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.
— John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
— Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge
Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.
— John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of
Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
— Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
The greatest risk is not taking any.
— Tim Fargo
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
— Jeff Bezos
In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, " Memento Mori": Remember you will die. A reminder of mortality would help the hero keep things in perspective, instill some humility. Job's memento mori had been delivered by his doctors, but it did not instill humility. Instead he roared back after his recovery with even more passion. The illness reminded him that he had nothing to lose, so he should forge ahead full speed. " He came back on a mission," said Cook. " Even though he was now running a large company, he kept making bold moves that I don't think anybody else would have done.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.
— Karen Blixen, Out of Africa
Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your lifeFinancial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!Choice has always been yours.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Paul Buchheit: I'm suddenly reminded that, for a while, I asked people if they were playing Russian Roulette with a gun with a billion barrels (or some huge number, so in other words, some low probability that they would actually be killed), how much would they have to be paid to play one round? A lot of people were almost offended by the question and they'd say, "I wouldn't do it at any price." But, of course, we do that everyday. They drive to work in cars to earn money and they are taking risks all the time, but they don't like to acknowledge that they are taking risks. They want to pretend that everything is risk-free.
— Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?
— Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
The greatest risk is not taking one.
— Tim Fargo
One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.
— Alastair Reynolds, On the Steel Breeze
Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.
— Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.
— J.M. Coetzee, Summertime
At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.
— Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century
What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.
— Chirag Tulsiani
The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.
— Nicole Bernier
The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.
— Jasinda Wilder, Big Girls Do It Better
Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
— Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
— E.M. Forster, Howards End
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
— Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle." Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.
— Neal Shusterman, Bruiser
Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Any way, is better than no way at all.
— Anthony Liccione
A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.
— Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners
Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.
— Orrin Woodward
...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.
— Nate Silver
Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.
— T.S. Welti, Left Behind
Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.
— David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
— Oscar Wilde
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
— Albert Camus
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
— Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
— George Eliot
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
— George Sand, Indiana
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
— Christopher Hitchens
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
— Alan Lightman, Reunion
The ego hates losing – even to God.
— Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.
— Kenneth E. Collier
Each one of us is selfish, including me.
— Santosh Kalwar
But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.
— Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Shadows
Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another's mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have as little for me. I will not, therefore, take any pains upon your account; and should I labour with you upon my own account, in expectation of a return, I know I should be disappointed, and that I should in vain depend upon your gratitude. Here then I leave you to labour alone; You treat me in the same manner. The seasons change; and both of us lose our harvests for want of mutual confidence and security.
— David Hume
The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.
— Wangari Maathai
Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a vast river which flows into the “gulf of misery and endless wo” (Hel. 5:12).
— Neal A. Maxwell
Selfishness is blind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.
— Hal Ackerman, Stein, Stung
When you sever ties with the unit purely for self-serving intentions, you are likely to find yourself stranded and struggling to survive; fighting to keep your head above water. What’s more, there is no one to save you because you’ve turned your back on your comrades and snubbed your support system.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.
— Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist
What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You're always making something look big. If you don't glorify God when you're involved in a conflict, you inevitably show that someone or something else rules your heart.
— Ken Sande, Resolving Everyday Conflict
Being self-sufficient is not selfish
—  it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self
Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)
— Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature much less by the sentiments of love and heroism but is a system of distrust not of giving, but of taking advantage.
— Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
I always say that creating positive change in the world starts with just one person: you. That’s why it is so important to learn to be the right kind of selfish. It’s essential to learn the art of taking care of ourselves so that we can have the energy and the willpower to take care of each other and the world that we live in
— Lizzie Velásquez, Dare to Be Kind: How Extraordinary Compassion Can Transform Our World
The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are put on this earth to cause misery, because what they take so freely for themselves comes always at great cost to others.
— Susan  Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday