Taking Your Chances Quotes

#1. You have to believe on the court. In the end, it's mental. In these moments against a great champion like Rafa, you have to believe. It's all about stepping in and taking your chances. I always believed, but it's a process of learning.

Novak Djokovic

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

Roger Bannister

#3. Taking chances. Risking a little to gain a lot, fully aware that the word 'promise' defies definition. Outcomes cannot be predicted. There are too many variables. Sometimes you have to close your eyes to forecast the weather.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. You don't want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.

Sarah Noffke

#5. Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Anything in your life that's acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

Mandy Hale

#10. Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.

Mandy Hale

#11. Taking chances on opportunities, even if they aren't right for you, gives you a clearer picture of where you want to go with your life and career.

Lauren Bush

#12. 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

#13. I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing
everything just right? Taking no chances means
wasting your dreams.

Ellen Hopkins

#14. I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

Gisele Bundchen

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

E. E. Cummings

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Steve Rizzo

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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