Quotes About Take Chances

#1. I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

#2. We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

#3. Dare to take chances.
Dare to take the path less traveled.
You may never know where the path may lead you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Eugene V. Debs

#5. You've given out a lot of second chances, kid. Take one yourself.

Samanthe Beck

#6. Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#7. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?

Tyson Chandler

#8. 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

#9. I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Teddy Pendergrass

#10. There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It

Kate Elliott

#11. I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

Becki Newton

#12. At last.. You only regret the chances you didn't take.

Lovely Goyal

#13. No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

Lil' Wayne

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

Barbara Corcoran

#15. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

Erykah Badu

#16. I'm not afraid to take chances or go off on my own.

Norman Reedus

#17. Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

Dave Matthews

#18. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.

Jenny B. Jones

#19. It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

Dick Van Dyke

#20. 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

#21. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

Lao-Tzu

#22. To be successful, one must take chances.

Willie Stargell

#23. If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

Daniel Woodrell

#24. Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.

Paul Walker

#25. Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim

John Galavan

#26. If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

Mario Andretti

#27. I haven't brushed yet."
"I'll take my chances," he said, gently pulling my hands away from my mouth. "Pay the toll, stinky.

Beth Ehemann

#28. Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

Bernard Cornwell

#29. Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

#30. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.

Libba Bray

#31. Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Billy Joel

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Textbook survival says stay still, don't take any chances, wait for rescue. That's a boring TV show. My thing was always, "Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!"

Bear Grylls

#35. Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#36. One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.

Sam Levenson

#37. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.

Auliq Ice

#38. The 3 C's of life:
Choices, Chances, Changes.
You must make the choice, to take a chance, if you want anything in life to change.

Unknown

#39. A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Ha-Joon Chang

#40. I'll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.

Peter V. Brett

#41. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

Walt Whitman

#42. Miss Frizzle

"Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.

D. Blake

#43. Everybody's career has ups and downs. I like to take chances; I don't like to stand still. And I don't give a damn what the market is interested in; I want to try things.

Alan Arkin

#44. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

Peter Cundill

#45. At this point I'd take my chances with nearly anyone if they got me off the batting cage. Even if this was the Sparkly Vampire Rescue & World Domination League, I was still getting in the damn helicopter.

Dennis Liggio

#46. The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

Thomas Sowell

#47. Have you had this place inspected?" he asked. "The house is ready to fall off its timbers. I couldn't risk coming in here without offering a quick prayer to Butyakengo."
"Who?"
"A Gypsy protective spirit." He smiled at her. "But now that I'm here, I'll take my chances.

Lisa Kleypas

#48. 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

#49. It costs a lot of money to release a movie. What you'd call art-house movies - movies that don't have big stars or big budgets - they're very hard for distributors to get behind 'em and take chances.

Bryan Brown

#50. I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet.

Auliq Ice

#51. 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

#52. The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

Jim Rohn

#53. God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so far as it continues to shower. Note however that you may never be able to quench your test no matter how long you shall keep standing in the rains whilst you keep your lips closed.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#54. This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know what might happen. You might have a part in bringing Christ to the world. Grace

Max Lucado

#55. I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy
dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

Megan Mullally

#56. 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

#57. Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

Phil Robertson

#58. The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in ... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

#59. No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down or something. I'll just stick with this one for a while and take my chances. I'll be brave.

Lauren Bacall

#60. That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Suzanne Farrell

#61. Perhaps the most perilous dangers are the ones we face within ourselves. Who we are inside permits the chances we take with the outside world.

Ellen Anne Eddy

#62. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

Jerry Saltz

#63. I need to move on and take chances when
they find me. To be fearless even if it means getting hurt again.

Kate Le Vann

#64. For an actor who has the ability to take a chance, which may make him look like a fool, but may end in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow so to speak. So you have to take chances to be a bit dangerous and a bit silly every now and then and playful.

Max Irons

#65. Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Joan Anderson

#66. I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

George Gallup

#67. More dangerous than being in a house full of vampires? I think I'll take my chances, Mr. Fallinsworth."

"I think we're way past formalities here since my cock has been inside that hot, wet, delicious body of yours.

K.L. Kreig

#68. Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

Frances Mayes

#69. You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.

Megan McCafferty

#70. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Gloria Estefan

#71. Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views.

W. H. Auden

#72. If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

Ronald Reagan

#73. To say "It's no use" is to say the Potter is not qualified to do what He does best. Take your chances on God. Put your life in His hands. Newness doesn't come from faith in yourself. It comes from faith in Him.

Beth Moore

#74. If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!'

Evander Holyfield

#75. God pays all bills He authorizes." When we take chances on our own, in ministry or business or finances, we take a risk. But if God directs us to do something, He will provide the desire, the means, the tools, and the wherewithal - and perhaps an angel - to help us.

Betty Malz

#76. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."

Katherine Paterson

#77. Life can be a mystery, love can be a mistake, laughter can turn into tears, but these are chances we'll have to take.

Alysha Millet

#78. I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren't willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place - so you can share the blame.

Hal Riney

#79. Time is mutable! Time changes! Take your time, but, as much as possible; don't forget to take all the chances in your life time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#80. Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Denis Waitley

#81. USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#82. Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure.

Townes Van Zandt

#83. In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Anonymous

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

Steve Rizzo

#85. The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.

Venita VanCaspel

#86. I take chances. I don't limit myself. I don't think anybody who listens to Boston would have predicted hearing a female rapper on the beginning of the song 'Sail Away.' But that's what fit.

Tom Scholz

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

Nicky Hilton

#88. Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Kay Ryan

#89. The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Patrick Warburton

#90. You just don't get it. The point I'm trying to make - the point you're deliberately ignoring - is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

Steph Bowe

#91. Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Natalie Goldberg

#92. You ought to take more chances," I said.
"I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry.

Larry McMurtry

#93. Drive fast, take chances. Interpretation: Don't worry about breaking the emotional speed limit. Rush headlong into life and enjoy every moment of exhilaration!

Nikki DiCaro

#94. Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

Jean Smart

#95. 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

#96. No. There are no second chances in life, no rewind button. You don't get a do-over, so if you want something you have to run, smash into it and grab it with everything you have. You have to take it and hold onto it tightly before it's too late.

Emma Hart

#97. You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.

Julie Anne Peters

#98. The thing is ... I was a very proud girl. I never wanted to take the chance I might get hurt. Isn't that funny? I was game for any exciting adventure that came my way, but when it came to risking my heart, I was a coward.

Nicole Christie

#99. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

Thomas Wolfe

#100. I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

Cybill Shepherd