These reckless quotes will inspire you. Reckless, marked by lack of proper caution or (of a person or their actions) without thinking or caring about the consequences of an action.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging reckless quotes, reckless sayings, and reckless proverbs.
Best Reckless Quotes
- “I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.” ~ Angelina Jolie
- “Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.” ~ Frank Warren
- “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” ~ Martin Luther
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“Reckless youth makes rueful age.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “Reckless adventure is the fool’s hazard.” ~ Tacitus
- “The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.” ~ Luc de Clapiers
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“Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.” ~ Charles Duhigg
- “Don’t be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity’s sake be it to the top of your bent.” ~ Violet Trefusis
- “No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody.” ~ Rumi -
“Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.” ~ Choi Hong Hi
- “Reckless haste makes poor speed.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “I’ve been to unpretty places with the roles I’ve played, and I’m attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.” ~ Rhys Ifans , Reckless quotes pretty
- “When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.” ~ William Butler Yeats
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“The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.” ~ Carole Maso
- “Some part of you will always … fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That’s why you’re so reckless in the things you do. You don’t hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous” ~ Richelle Mead
- “Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.” ~ Danielle Trussoni
- “You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.” ~ Hesiod
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“Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.” ~ Drake
- “The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! … either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!” ~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
- “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.” ~ Graham Greene
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“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.” ~ Karl Marx
- “Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a truly successful life. In the act of creativity, being careful guarantees sameness and mediocrity, which means your work will be invisible. Better to be reckless than careful. Better to be bold than safe. Better to have your work seen and remembered, or you’ve struck out. There is no middle ground.” ~ George Lois
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“When you’re telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.” ~ Kate Winslet
- “If you’ve ever known the love of God, you know it’s nothing but reckless and it’s nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn’t hurt it’s probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don’t really love Him, and they don’t really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it’s also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it’s like everything else that is really wonderful, there’s a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.” ~ Rich Mullins
- “In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike–and they will–you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham’s seed.” ~ Jeffrey R. Holland
- “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff’d and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Yes, I’m reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can’t be a nihilist.” ~ Marilyn Manson
- “Not ‘I don’t give a f-‘ to just be reckless and do whatever, but ‘I don’t give a f- what they say.’ … I know who I am and what I’m doing in my life and what I’ve accomplished and continue to accomplish as a performer, as a writer, as an artist, as a person, as a human being. I’m happy with the man I’m becoming.” ~ Justin Bieber
- “I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don’t mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.” ~ Christopher , Reckless quotes recovery
- “But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.” ~ Herman Melville
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“I’m not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.” ~ Scott Lynch
- “In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.” ~ Jakob Wassermann
- “Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “I have one desire now – to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.” ~ Graham Greene
- “This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist’s loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.” ~ Leonard Cohen
- “No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.” ~ John Lahr
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“The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.” ~ Alfred Marshall
- “The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.” ~ Joseph Conrad
- “Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]” ~ Immortal Technique
- “The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.” ~ Zhuangzi
- “The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.” ~ John Dos Passos
- “One side thinks the president’s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. ‘It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,’ said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. ‘I haven’t found any colleague who’s been enthusiastic about it.'” ~ Peter Baker
- “Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
purpose… one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love… What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. -
“Reckless capitalism kills black people.” ~ Mos Def
- “Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless… and that’s on a good day.” ~ Jeaniene Frost
- “A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.” ~ Adlai Stevenson I
- “Today, hundreds of thousands of AIDS patients are under medical treatment, which is a great advancement. But it makes some people reckless.” ~ Yoweri Museveni
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“If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.” ~ Louis D. Brandeis
- “Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don’t really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon.” ~ Bell Hooks
- “In some ways the most appalling thing of all, that Trump continues to question the fact of a very serious Russian attack on the core of our political system. I mean, I don’t know how you get more reckless and dangerous than that. And you know, the president’s first obligation is to defend the country. And in this respect, he doesn’t seem to be interested in doing that.” ~ Max Boot
- “I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.” ~ J. Maarten Troost
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“I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.” ~ Magic Johnson
- “Life consists of two days:
one for you and one against you, so when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you” ~ Ali ibn Abi Talib - “It’s kinda like D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting on a road, and instead of just passing and glancing away, they decide to accept what he calls the confrontation between their souls. It’s like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.” ~ Richard Linklater
- “I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.” ~ Robert Frost
