Chances Quotes

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

Just keep taking chances and having fun.
Garth Brooks
Dale Carnegie

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark Twain

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Richard Dawkins

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
Mario Andretti

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
Preity Zinta

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Franz Liszt

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.
Dick Cavett

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Joyce Meyer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering

I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

Peter Diamandis

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Robert Fulghum

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.
Cat Cora

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.
Howard Graham Buffett

The only safe thing is to take a chance.
Mike Nichols

I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
Magic Johnson

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren’t making some mistakes, you aren’t taking enough chances.
John Sculley

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
Alexander Woollcott

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark Twain

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn

I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you’re going to take. I’m always for the one that’s challenging.
Gisele Bundchen

To be successful, one must take chances.
Willie Stargell

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.
Terri Clark

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
Penn Jillette

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don’t like to have a situation placed over my head.
Bill Murray

I think it’s no secret that I’ve tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.
Nicolas Cage

You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.
Casey Stengel

It’s not that I don’t value my life. It’s just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
Wendy O. Williams

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you’re not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
Gail Sheehy

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
Gordon Getty

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
Robert Redford

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

This business is always changing. If you’re going to be a leader, you’ve got to take chances.
Ronnie Milsap

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.
Paula Cole

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I’ve done it.
Novak Djokovic

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you’re willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it’s mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that’s what matters.
Tracy Chapman

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I’ve been given in life.
Estelle

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
Rob Lowe

I love taking chances.
Wayne Newton

Living is risking.
Jeanne Moreau

I guess I’ve always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals – people who are adventurous and take chances.
Carmen Electra

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.
Charlie Day

If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
Gina Barreca

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world – with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself – there’ll be a lot more chances to be happy. It’s not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.
Tyler Cowen

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey

A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.
Prabhas

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
Paul Auster

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
James Cash Penney

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams

It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
Ricky Nelson

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.
Mohamed Salah

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
M. S. Swaminathan

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Spike Milligan

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I’ve made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
Jim Beaver

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Isaac Newton

I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!
Mr. T

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
Robert Altman

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It’s not how you start the season, it’s how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that’s what you play for. You don’t play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.
Albert Pujols

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar

I don’t want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
Victor Webster

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
David Elkind

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
Joe Biden

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don’t have it, you’ve got no chance.
Paul Merson

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Roberto Clemente

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Arsene Wenger

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin Franklin

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
King George V

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.
Jennifer Winget

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.
Gever Tulley

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.
Tiger Woods

Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
Rod Blagojevich

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Max Weber

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs