Not Taking Chances Quotes

#1. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

#2. Nothing's ever simple. I just don't want you to ignore possibilities out of fear. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, believing that somebody's going to catch you.

Nadia Lee

#3. Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Barbara Corcoran

#4. When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Aaron Lauritsen

#5. Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

Mo Yan

#6. The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Amy Poehler

#7. Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

Ron Greenwood

#8. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Jorge Bucay

#9. Damn skippy it's a flea collar. I'm not taking no chances.

Janet Evanovich

#10. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

Patti Stanger

#11. Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn't get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.

Mariana Zapata

#12. Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Roger Bannister

#13. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!

T.J. Klune

#14. The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Paula Cole

#15. I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Raymond Loewy

#16. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity ... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Gisele Bundchen

#17. 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

#18. I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

Harold Prince

#19. Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

Lauren Dane

#20. The greatest risk is not taking any.

Tim Fargo

#21. Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#22. To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

Mandy Hale

#23. I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.

Chris Hill

#24. I knew how good love could be
I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life
and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't.

James Patterson

#25. The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking.Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking.I may not know it, but these are the momentsI am going to remember most, just got to keep going.

Miley Cyrus

#26. The message, if you think about it this way, is all about taking chances because fate or destiny or God will protect you. Take a risk, have a little faith. It's all about life, not death.

Chris Bohjalian

#27. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Atul Purohit

#28. 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.

Kevin Costner

#29. To turn back is one kind of death; to go forward is another.

Elizabeth Lesser

#30. We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Kirk Hammett

#31. I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.

Gavin DeGraw

#32. If you let fear of the unknown stop you from taking chances, you will stifle your true potential.

Steve Rizzo

#33. Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, 'Don't risk it.' Because it's only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.

Sabrina Jeffries

#34. Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Nicky Hilton

#35. I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#36. I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Jodi Picoult

#37. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

David Viscott

#38. I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about taking chances on young filmmaking, taking risks and obliterating our salary so we can make something cheaply and if it wins everyone wins big.

Mark Duplass

#39. I danced before I wrote. Everything my mentor, Marjorie Mussman, teaches about movement -- creating focus, taking chances, making an unequivocal statement -- is beautifully applicable to the craft of writing.

Jane F. Kotapish

#40. 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

#41. Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

Doreen Virtue

#42. Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Clarence Birdseye

#43. Now, I knew more, and I knew what I wanted.
I wasn't afraid of taking it and taking chances.

Penelope Douglas

#44. For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.

Dave Kikoski

#45. Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Lemony Snicket

#46. The situation is that the higher you go, the more fuel is used. So usually you trade speed for fuel. We are not that concerned at the moment, but we are just driving it very hard. It is a very dangerous place and we are not taking any chances.

Mike Kendrick

#47. If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

Dwayne Johnson

#48. If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

Bono

#49. The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it

Paulo Coelho

#50. Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Ellen Hopkins

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. Death is big," Dare acknowledges. "But there are things bigger than that. If there's not, then this is all for nothing. Life is worth nothing. Putting yourself out there, and taking chances and all that. All of that stuff is bollocks if it can just disappear in the end.

Courtney Cole

#54. Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

Winston Churchill

#55. You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It's by taking chances that you'll learn how to be brave.

Nikita Koloff

#56. I love taking chances.

Wayne Newton

#57. We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Andrew Greeley

#58. Life is definitely about taking chances, living every minute with zeal, and then laying back and regretting nothing.

Quadidra S. Williams

#59. When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Barbara Kingsolver

#60. The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

Steve Harvey

#61. The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them

Alexander Pope

#62. He would have to ask questions constantly, take nothing for granted. There would be so many opportunities to miss the obvious, so many chances to misunderstand, so many ways of taking the wrong path. 11

Isaac Asimov

#63. Life is what you make it, taking chances based upon your intuition will give you the potential to live life to the full, bringing all your desires to life.

Steven Redhead

#64. If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

Kate Hudson

#65. I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

Lauren Bacall

#66. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E. E. Cummings

#67. Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

Irving Azoff

#68. There's a famous quote I read somewhere. It says we are all given second chances every day of our lives. They are there for the taking, it's just that we don't usually take them.

Anonymous

#69. Substitution is a true test of strength. The real performance of a player is seen not only during playing time but also and more especially when the player is substituted.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#70. Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

Alan Arkin

#71. Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.

Danny Wallace

#72. Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

Vironika Tugaleva

#73. For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.

Dree Hemingway

#74. If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many opportunities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#75. The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.

Brian Blessed

#76. If you are not taking the time to set your own goals, chances are pretty high someone else is doing it for you. So don't be surprised someday when you end up someplace you never hoped to be.

Mark W. Boyer

#77. What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

Ilsa J. Bick

#78. I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

CeeLo Green

#79. You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

John Legend

#80. The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.

Le Ly Hayslip

#81. The work of freedom is messy, dangerous, and intentionally uncomfortable. Here's a simple test: if the action step you're taking isn't really costing you your comfort, chances are you're not doing enough.

Dennis Johnson

#82. Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

Ellen Hopkins

#83. Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

Nadege Richards

#84. If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Sallie Krawcheck

#85. We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said ... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

Roger Mahony

#86. There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don't take Chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! -RVM

R.v.m.

#87. I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Robert Fulghum

#88. I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.

Romany Malco