120 Going Extreme Quotes

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Famous Going Extreme Quotes

When you think about winning, you go to the extreme. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. — Bertrand Russell

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. — John Maynard Keynes

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Extreme high-altitude mountaineering deserves its place among the world's most extreme sports. — Nirmal Purja

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left. — Clint Eastwood

Desperate times breed desperate measures — William Shakespeare

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk. — Bill Rodgers

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand - Robin Sharma

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand — Robin Sharma

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes. — Klemens Von Metternich

When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme. — Travis Rice

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues. — Michael Crichton

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot

Short Going Extreme Quotes

  • Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde
  • I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. — Jeremy London
  • To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
  • Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell
  • If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk. — George Sheehan
  • It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow
  • If you are the best, you must go that extra mile. — Conor McGregor
  • All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. — William Butler Yeats
  • Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit — Bruce Lee
  • Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. — Albert Camus

Top 10 Going Extreme Quotes

Remember, no one has ever achieved anything truly great without going through extreme adversity. — Lewis Howes

I'm an extremely, extremely persistent person. Extremely. And when I believe I am right, and it is important, I will go to the end of the earth. — Bill Ackman

Any time I go through difficulty, I look to moments in history where people have endured the same pain, if not more extreme, and I analyze, absorb, and connect how they got through it. — Jay Shetty

Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier? — Joseph J. Romm

Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep. — Deepak Chopra

Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning. — John Wall

Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. — Karl Donitz

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient. — Pema Chodron

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible. — Tupac Shakur

Going Extreme Image Quotes

Going extreme quote You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Going Extra Mile Quotes

Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us. — Benazir Bhutto

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. — Napoleon Hill

Going extreme quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

We won’t take distance for an answer. We’ll go the extra mile to connect everyone, everywhere, because we know connection is everything. — Micky Watkins

People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best. — John C. Maxwell

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. — Stephen Hawking

Going extreme quote Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. — Joel Osteen

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd. — Bob Proctor

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. — Steve Jobs

Going Crazy Quotes

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. — Eminem

It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. — Francis Chan

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. - Jimi Hendrix

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven. — Jimi Hendrix

Going extreme quote Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us." — Anthony the Great

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. - Waylon Jennings

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane. — Waylon Jennings

Going extreme quote Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.

Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday. — Sahil Bloom

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. - Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. — Charles Bukowski

I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together - entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy. — Jake Paul

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia. — Shakira

Love Extreme Quotes

Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it's great, we love it - that's what play and stimulation are. — Robert M. Sapolsky

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. — Shannon Alder

Sorry to interrupt your scrolling but this is just a friendly reminder that your time on this earth is extremely limited and everyone you love is going to die one day so maybe you should put the fucking phone away and go do something meaningful. — Mark Manson

Going extreme quote Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.

Funding has been the hardest part, and my wife has been extremely supportive both when I decided to leave my job, and even when I re-mortgaged our home and put equity into the project. I am lucky to have such a loving and supportive partner. — Nirmal Purja

I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again. — Rick Rubin

This hair has a reputation of being stereotypically punk rock, and I'm the girliest person you'll ever find so it took a while for me to figure out how to convey my style. I never wear black very often anymore, all the colors I wear are extremely soft and lovely. — Ariana Grande

Going extreme quote Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing. — Lupita Nyong'o

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes. — Albert Camus

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. — Helmut Newton

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

Passion Extreme Quotes

It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme. — Paul Heyman

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer

Going extreme quote Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it. — Jessica Alba

Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain. — Yvon Chouinard

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme. — Esther Perel

Going extreme quote Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead. — John Boorman

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. — Alexis de Tocqueville

The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial. — Isaiah Berlin

I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too. — Jerry Rice

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More Going Extreme Quotes

Going extreme quote Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the proc
Today I will go out with the flow of life and trust the process. I will not stress over things I can't control.

What we call diversity -- in the extreme. In other words, affirmative action programs for every conceivable category of humanity that the left wants to come up with, whether it's someone who is a gender neutral or homosexual or whatever else, the left loves to put us into categories and push this. And the people that went along with it and said,' sure, let's put women into the combat forces. Let's have women everywhere.' Let's do whatever we want to do. We're going to create this brave new world where everyone is the same. There are no differences, nothing matters. So I think that's where we are. — Douglas Macgregor

The truth is markets are made up of people, with their emotions, insecurities, their tendency to go to extremes, and their other foibles. Thus, they often make mistakes and swing to erroneous extremes. — Howard Marks

We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me! — Keith Urban

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. — Charles R. Swindoll

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other. — Louise Bourgeois

We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen. — Francis Schaeffer

What are you going to focus on, that's what affects everybody's life. If you focus on what you can't control, you're a little crazy inside, angry and depressed. If you focus most of the time on what you don't have instead of what you do have, you're going to be extremely unhappy. — Tony Robbins

I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I feel like there's a moment, in every young girl's life, whether it happens with your family, or a tragedy or death in your family, or a relationship, where there's a turning point where you go from extremely hopeful and cheery to wondering whether you are okay with where you are. That's always awkward. — Selena Gomez

I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown. — Elizabeth I

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? — Bruce Sterling

Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory. — Alex Webb

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? — Sebastian Horsley

I dont follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme. — JWoww

The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather - because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen? — Jimmy Fallon

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns. — Rosie O'Donnell

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed. — Francis Darwin

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine. — Megan McCafferty

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary. — Sayings

You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that. — Jim Courier

Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try. — Richard Bach

The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. — Hillary Clinton

I'm an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life. — Heath Ledger

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living. — Elena Ferrante

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing. — Paul Wolfowitz

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording. — Kitty Kelley

Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them. — Denis Waitley

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go — Jens Lehmann

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements. — Questlove

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