Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Risk

• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Government
  • Risk

• I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Believe
  • Risk
  • Thought

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Risk

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Night

• The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Country
  • Risk

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• It's the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Me
  • Risk
  • Adventure

• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Real
  • Risk
  • Financial

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • High
  • Success
  • Opportunity

• I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Right

• Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Danger
  • Blossom
  • Fancies

• I always wrote - not about war, necessarily, but I always wrote stories. I tried to write while I was in Iraq. It's not really - I didn't do a very good job, and not about war.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Job
  • War

• I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Honest

• Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

  

  William DeWitt Hyde
  • Live
  • Present
  • Regret

• During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Risk
  • Danger
  • First Period