A Quote by Lech Walesa
I risked my life.
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You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.
For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.
When it comes to his sons, it would be easy to think that the macho Duke of Edinburgh has most in common with Prince Andrew. After all, it was Andrew, his third-born son, who risked his life in the Falklands war as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot - just as Philip had risked his own as a naval officer during World War II.
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
Donald Trump obviously knows nothing about what it's like to put your life on the line for your country. He's never risked his life for anything.
I haven't seen too many American distance men on the international scene willing to take risks. I saw some U.S. women in Barcelona willing to risk, more than men. The Kenyans risk. Steve Prefontaine risked. I risked - I went through the first half of the Tokyo race just a second off my best 5000 time.
I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
I have sacrificed my freedom and risked my life in order to expose the danger of nuclear weapons which threatens this whole region. I acted on behalf of all citizens and all of humanity.
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
I know a lot of people who are struggling musicians; it's a hard life, and I've risked being that. The rewards are tremendous now that I've made it, I thank God every day. But I put it all on the line for it.
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