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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
Sep 18, 2025
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.
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
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.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
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
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
If you don't risk anything you risk everything
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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.
I love you, Minerva. I love that you believe in me no matter what. I love how you take whatever you see and distill it into your books. I love your clever mind and your generous heart and every inch of your beautiful body. I love you even when you give me heart failure, by risking your life before my very eyes." He smiled tenderly. "I only hope in time I can prove worthy of your love.
Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
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.
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.