Top 100 No Guarantees Quotes
#1. Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.
Charles Koch
#2. While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.
Tom Shippey
#3. I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.
Warren Buffett
#4. Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#5. The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#6. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#7. Yesterday is gone and you can't change it.
There are no guarantees for tomorrow, so save it.
The best stuff is now, so live today and don't dare waste it.
Michael Neale
#8. What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
Bob Dylan
#9. The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#10. There are no guarantees with love,' her father said, reading her mind. 'You can't hold some of it back, like a deposit, so you can get your money back if something goes wrong. You have to give yourself wholeheartedly, whatever the cost.
Christine Stovell
#11. There's no such thing as an "absolute guarantee" in this world.
Hidetaka Suehiro
#12. In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.
Elliott Abrams
#14. There are no guarantees in life, which is why my motto is to live intensely, love fiercely and to always have two shelties.
Priscilla Cogan
#15. I don't think I could ever put myself out there like there, not without some guarantees."Hormones win every time." "So you think it's all just physical?" "No but we don't get to choose who we fall for.
Kris Dinnison
#16. Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you're given. If not, what's it all for anyway?
Megan Mitcham
#17. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
Martha Beck
#18. The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible.
Eric Schlosser
#19. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.
Edward Hallett Carr
#20. I know there are no guarantees in love, in marriage, in life, in anything. But I want you anyway. I want you all the way. I want you exactly as you are.
Noelle Adams
#21. Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.
Frank Chodorov
#22. There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.
Bill Walton
#23. Life offers no guarantees, so I can't offer them to you either. But when you meet someone you want to share your life with, the guarantees won't matter to you. You'll look at that person and know that being with them is worth the risk, and only then will you be willing to take it.
Cassie Cross
#24. The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
Demi Moore
#25. No relationship comes with a guarantee, but I'd rather fail with you than succeed with anyone else.
Linda Morris
#26. Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success
Eric Hoffer
#27. Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.
David Henry Hwang
#28. Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.
Tian Dayton
#29. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
#30. This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.
James Weldon Johnson
#31. The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.
Joy Fielding
#32. Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
Mason Cooley
#33. I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Gordon Strachan
#34. You see, love is a funny thing. There are no guarantees, just the day-to-day and the moment. You make vows, hope for the best, and do your damnedest to love the person you're with.
Jennifer Probst
#35. Sometimes life is much like a window seat on the wing...little turbulence but no guarantees.
Will Leamon
#36. When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply understand the choices that were taken, the roads that were walked, and that there are no guarantees to an unseen future.
Lionel Suggs
#37. Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.
Seth Rollins
#38. Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.
Edward Brooke
#39. Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.
Cesc Fabregas
#40. China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.
Henry A. Kissinger
#41. I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder, ' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.
Ray Bradbury
#42. The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.
Elton Gallegly
#43. Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
Brian Tracy
#44. America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
Peter Kropotkin
#45. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.
Richard Bach
#46. My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
Richard John Neuhaus
#47. When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
#48. Individual guarantees stated in writing in the constitution are of no use to a nation if it is not the people, but a third party, whether government or trade-union, that fixes prices and wages
Faustino Ballve
#49. You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
Elizabeth Edwards
#50. Love is many things. It's every raw human emotion rolled up into one messy four letter word. There's no rule book and definitely no guarantees.
J.L. Berg
#51. it guarantees a minimum annual income to every citizen, on the assumption that there's no way to calculate a justifiable relation between hours worked and dollars earned.
James Livingston
#52. Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.
Gustave De Molinari
#53. Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.
Jonathan Raymond
#54. Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.
James Berardinelli
#55. The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
Brian Tracy
#56. Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.
Donald Trump
#57. Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
Gene Spafford
#58. Life has no guarantees, but my life has no meaning if you're not in it.
Robin Bielman
#59. We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.
Geraldine Ferraro
#60. Life is the greatest privilege that has no guarantees. So appreciate it, enjoy it and live it well!
Timothy Pina
#61. The first thing you learn in boxing is that there are NO guarantees.
Tommy Morrison
#62. And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.
Susan Patron
#63. All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
Carl Sagan
#64. When you sign with a major label there is no guarantee that they are going to release it either unless you have a guarantee clause or a marketing clause.
Michael Sweet
#65. All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.
Hunter S. Thompson
#66. Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.
Emily Yoffe
#67. Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.
Josephine Winslow Johnson
#68. No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.
Clifton Anderson
#69. Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
Rita Mae Brown
#70. The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
David Souter
#71. I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.
Mike Stern
#72. Life comes with no guarantees. You just have to live life the fullest.
Ika Natassa
#73. There are no guarantees in life, so learn from others' mistakes. Enjoy what you can, while you can. Don't let it consume you like . . . well, just let go and let life happen.
Dave Pelzer
#74. Forever waits for no one, I know this now. There are no guarantees in life, no definitive paths we must take. The bottom line is that it's luck. Some you get given to you, some of it is random luck, and the rest you have to make for yourself.
Emma Hart
#75. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.
Noam Chomsky
#76. Is it experimental?" "All medicine is experimental. All therapies work on some patients but not on others. You must listen to what I tell you: medicine offers no guarantees.
Ken Follett
#77. A hospital patient can expect one medical error every single day of any hospital stay. Malpractice suits are numerous enough that one may reasonably conclude that there is certainly no guarantee of proper health care by contracting it out.
Andrew Saul
#78. Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.
Dan Savage
#79. This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.
Charles Schumer
#80. There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.
Iyanla Vanzant
#81. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.
Ray Bradbury
#82. Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.
Konosuke Matsushita
#83. makes us no promises, no guarantees. Things move toward us whether we want them or not. Accidents occur, illnesses strike, and bombs fall. One street can be pulverized, the next one over not even scratched. Chance is so shifty and arbitrary.
Ann Howard Creel
#84. Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.
Jeanne Phillips
#85. There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
Danielle Steel
#86. There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.
Robert McKee
#87. It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
William Vickrey
#88. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.
Heather Sellers
#89. Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties
Tess Gerritsen
#90. The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it's all over, your dream will come to pass.
T.D. Jakes
#91. Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. The scope and nature of the constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press are to be viewed and applied in that light.
Felix Frankfurter
#92. You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.
Robert Pattinson
#93. In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)
Alvin Plantinga
#94. If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.
Elliott Erwitt
#95. The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.
You are deciding your life right now.
Meg Ray
#96. Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#97. In one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security ...
Saunders Mac Lane
#98. That's the thing about life. You don't always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.
Linda Becker
#99. Yes there would be danger. But wasn't that how things worked? Nothing was promised. People held on tight to the things they loved and cherished, enjoying the ride for as long as it lasted. There were no guarantees in life, only possibilities.
Aline Hunter
#100. Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Jayne Anne Phillips
