Take The Chances Quotes

#1. Some people just have more of a chance than others, and some just have to take the chances that they have. I know a lot of people who were more unfortunate than Jerry Bines, who turned out much better-

David Adams Richards

#2. If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

Benjamin Haydon

#3. Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#4. What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2...

But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich!

Deyth Banger

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. 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

#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. 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

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

Lovely Goyal

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Thomas Sowell

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Megan Mullally

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Gloria Estefan

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

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

Anonymous

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

Steve Rizzo

#52. 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

#53. 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

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

Nicky Hilton

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

Kay Ryan

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Jean Smart

#60. 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

#61. It's as though she holds to the walls of a canyon. If I move wrong she will look over her shoulder, let go, and take her chances with the fall.

Ally Condie

#62. Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing.

Asher Roth

#63. ...There are no 'what ifs.' You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you've got or cut her loose.

Michele L. Rivera

#64. I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

Nalo Hopkinson

#65. It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take ... These things you do ... This is a dangerous life to live ... alone.

Ally Carter

#66. Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

Marina Abramovic

#67. In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat ... .

Woody Allen

#68. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#69. They'll go to jail' said the Captain. 'And they'll stay there until Christmas. Then, if they promise to give up piracy and take an honest job somewhere, they may be allowed to go free.

Alexander McCall Smith

#70. They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

Loni Anderson

#71. The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

Thelonious Monk

#72. 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

#73. That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#74. The choices you make are no different from the chances you take because both have consequences.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#75. The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

Douglas Adams

#76. 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

#77. Live without regrets. It's very easy to, really. You just listen to your heart, follow it, and take chances. Always take chances. And take risks, especially when it comes to love. Because love is the one thing in this world that's worth risking everything for.

J. Sterling

#78. But the truth is, feelings don't change anything. To change something, you have to say things out loud. Do things. Take chances. Take a stand" -Riley

Jeff Garvin

#79. Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

Frank Oz

#80. I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Lee Ann Womack

#81. Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Madeleine Peyroux

#82. 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

#83. People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.

Frederick Lenz

#84. 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

#85. Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time - 'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#86. 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

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

Alexander Pope

#88. Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

Mayer Hawthorne

#89. 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

#90. The thing about caller ID is," Red said, more or less to himself, "it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone.

Anne Tyler

#91. To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#92. One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing.

Michelle Tea

#93. I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Samuel Goldwyn

#94. Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

Judd Apatow

#95. Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

John Havlicek

#96. Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.

Donald Trump

#97. It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.

Amy Poehler

#98. You cannot take all the chances you get.

Marat Safin

#99. Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

Queen Latifah

#100. How do you know your peanut butter has a pill inside of it? Take this simple test. Is your owner giving you peanut butter? If the answer is yes then the chances are are good that there is a pill in it.

Joe Garden