Quotes About Taking A Chance

#1. Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

David Morrissey

#2. I'm not taking a chance. I feel like I can't breathe without you. I'm just doing what I need to do to survive. It's as simple as that."
"Then let me be your air," he says quietly.

M. Leighton

#3. Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

Anne Lamott

#4. You're very lucky ... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

N.K. Jemisin

#5. I've done a lot of stupid things because of my fear of taking a chance on someone. But the most stupid thing I ever did was push you away.

Jennifer Shirk

#6. The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

Paul Weller

#7. President Obama has appointed a transgender woman to a position in the Department of Commerce. You know, in this era of partisan bickering, President Obama deserves a lot of credit for taking a chance on Ann Coulter, I think.

Conan O'Brien

#8. A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.

Courtney Milan

#9. I don't know what happened in your past, what he did to you, how he hurt you, but I'm not that guy. The only thing I want from you is you. I would never use you, Clair. I can't make you trust me, but if you let me, I'll prove to you that you can. What good is life without taking a chance?

Loni Flowers

#10. The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

Wendy O. Williams

#11. Taking a chance that you'll let me back in. I'd fucked up so much I would understand, If you didn't even want to be my friend.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#12. I realize that life is risks. It's acknowledging the past but looking forward. It's taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.

Carrie Ryan

#13. If you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside-taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Taking a chance on a new author, can open your mind to new experiences.

Jonathan Taylor

#15. The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.

Karina Longworth

#16. There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons
and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

Buzz Aldrin

#17. Isn't it worth taking a chance? I never thought so in the past, but i can honestly say now that i'd rather have a few minutes of extraordinary with you than a lifetime of nothing special without you.

Kimberly Raye

#18. Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#19. But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.

Susane Colasanti

#20. If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.

Peter Benchley

#21. It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

Patina Miller

#22. Taking a chance can be worth a lot more than you know.

Jessi Kirby

#23. A toast... to taking a chance, because that chance taken may be the very path that leads you to your happily ever after.

Tillie Cole

#24. Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance.

Isabel Allende

#25. Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Wil Wheaton

#26. Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.

Olivia Goldsmith

#27. An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

Luke Scott

#28. Back in 1987 when they drafted me. The Indians were the only team interested in taking a chance on Albert Belle, and I made the most of it. Hopefully, they got as much from me as I got from them.

Albert Belle

#29. They have to take a chance, everything they do is taking a chance, but they feel so much safer when they take it on something they know to be ugly, vain and stupid.

Ayn Rand

#30. For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

Stephen Richards

#31. I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

Andy Samberg

#32. There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful.

Billi Lim

#33. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Wil Wheaton

#34. You'll never be great without taking a chance. -Shinedown, Diamond Eyes.

Anna Snow

#35. Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove.

Lisi Harrison

#36. It's like a 'Fragile' sticker's on my forehead, and instead of taking a chance and saying something that might break me, they'd rather say nothing at all. But the silence is worst.

Angie Thomas

#37. There're no guarantees in this life, and when we risk our hearts, there's always a chance of getting hurt. Speaking only for myself now, I'd much prefer taking a chance on being hurt over never knowing real, true love.

Marie Force

#38. No successful business was ever made without someone taking a chance, no successful person got to where they are without taking risks, and no endeavor ever succeeded without people taking a gamble.

Stephen Richards

#39. If you're not scared then you're not taking a chance. If you're not taking a chance then what the hell are you doing anyway?

Ted Mosby

#40. Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Harold Prince

#41. Fear is temporary. Regret is permanent. Adventure is taking a chance because it's better than the question mark if you don't.

Dan Skinner

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

Barbara Corcoran

#43. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Jim McMahon

#44. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.

Alan Jacobs

#45. I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Berenice Marlohe

#46. Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.

Sinead O'Connor

#47. Today is the midterm elections. The Washington Post is predicting that there's a 98 percent chance of the Republicans taking the Senate and The New York Times says there's a 75 percent chance. And CNN said, 'Wait, that's today?'

Jimmy Fallon

#48. For once, fate us taking a problem off our hands gratis. Let's smile, say thank you and stay the hell out of it!

Karen Chance

#49. 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

#50. Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.

Chloe Thurlow

#51. I don't want to do that," Aomame said. "What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus." "Destiny. A chance encounter." "More or less," Aomame said, taking a sip of wine. "That's when I'll open up

Haruki Murakami

#52. 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

#53. Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

William James

#54. Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Neil Simon

#55. I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.

Michael J. Massimino

#56. For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.

Agatha Christie

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

Steve Rizzo

#58. 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

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

Nicky Hilton

#60. I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and filmmaker. Growing up in Brooklyn and Harlem, working at jobs like the bus company were great. I had benefits, a great salary, and security. But it wasn't my dream.

Malcolm Goodwin

#61. It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

Dwyane Wade

#62. 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

#63. It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

Seth Godin

#64. 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

#65. No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

Roberto Bolano

#66. 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

#67. I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.

Wladimir Klitschko

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

Alexander Pope

#69. I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Beyonce Knowles

#70. The biggest risk is not taking any risk ... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

#71. Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Jack Bauer

#72. And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.

Susane Colasanti

#73. When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice-T

#74. We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

#75. The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.

Lisa Kleypas

#76. When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Eric Christian Olsen

#77. Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

Hillary Clinton

#78. 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

#79. Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second
perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Antonin Sertillanges

#80. After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

J.L. Austin

#81. This is what I love about the Kimberley ... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

Malcolm Douglas

#82. Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.

Elise Kova

#83. Goddamn it," Zane murmured, raking a hand through his hair. What had happened was his fault - he had failed to be the dominant that the submissive obviously wanted and most certainly needed. Instead of taking control he had relinquished it and thus had probably ruined any chance with her.

Sharon Davis

#84. Taking care of my parents is one of the things that I want to do, just give them some of the things that we never had a chance to have. It's all about remembering where I came fromt.

Reggie Bush

#85. the fallen of the baboon into the river is the risen of the joy of the crocodile. Though the crocodile becomes happy, it conceals its joy until it deploys all its necessary deft and strength to take captive of the Baboon

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#86. The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.

Malin Akerman

#87. Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but "safe" isn't one of them.

Mandy Hale

#88. Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.

Dorothy Stang

#89. In the history of risk taking, had there ever been a better reason to take a chance than genuine, heart-pounding, scary-ass love?

Nicki Elson

#90. 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

#91. After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'

Eugene Fama

#92. So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?

Greyson Chance

#93. I didn't know how men managed with something taking up so much room down there. And what the hell kind of design left a person's privates dangling loose in the air and changing sizes all the time?

Karen Chance

#94. Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

Herbert Hoover

#95. For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper
I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself
you got this.

Jessica Alba

#96. A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Ann Bancroft

#97. Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#98. People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.

Aileen Wuornos

#99. There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk ... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

C.C. Hunter

#100. For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

Eric Topol