Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. — Soren Kierkegaard
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. — Gary Gygax
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one. — Unknown
Risk means uncertainty about which outcomes will occur and about the possibility of loss when the unfavorable ones do. — Howard S. Marks
Every chance taken is another chance to win. — Unknown
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
The word risk means different things to different people. Some people say risk. Some people say opportunity. — Changpeng Zhao
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. — Mark Twain
If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice? — Tyron Woodley
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. — Mary Quant
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. — Henry Ford II
If you don't risk anything you risk everything — Mark Zuckerberg
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams. — Herb Brooks
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. — Sophocles
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. — Branch Rickey
You have to take the calculated risk,to earn something — Dhirubhai Ambani
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia
Chance favors the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
Chance And Risk Image Quotes
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Risk And Chance Quotes
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks
I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass. — Jim Harrison
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
I can say that the risk-benefit ratio for those 18 and below doesn't justify vaccines and there's a pretty good chance that it doesn't justify vaccination in these very young adults. — Robert W. Malone
Be honest: Would you be as successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried about being liked. — Tim Grover
Don’t listen to others, You need to take chances and you need to take the risk sometimes in order to make things happen for yourself. — Nirmal Purja
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller
My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. — Tony Hawk
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution. — Russell L. Ackoff
Chance After Chance Quotes
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. — Aldous Huxley
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. — Ursula K. Le Guin
It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone. — Alex Gaskarth
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it. — Frank Sinatra
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. — Carl Sagan
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame. — Brander Matthews
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! — Davy Crockett
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is? — Robert Henri
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance. — Jeanette Winterson
Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.) — Neil Gaiman
Can I Have A Chance Quotes
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. — Jimmy Carter
I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time. — Ronaldinho
I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If
there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you. — Warren Buffett
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy. — Maggie Gyllenhaal
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
My philosophy is, if I can provide a solution that the end user truly enjoys, then I think I have a chance. — Eric Yuan
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of oding nothing.
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. — Paula Radcliffe
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance. — Melody Carlson
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
Risks And Taking Chances Quotes
Enormous self-belief, intuition, the ability to take a risk at a critical moment and go in for a very dangerous play with counter-chances for the opponent - it is precisely these qualities that distinguish great players. — Garry Kasparov
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
Take risks, take chances, and never be afraid to fail—it’s part of life. — Joe Rogan
You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: Played it safe.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. — Walter Anderson
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. — Walter Anderson
The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. — Albert Einstein
I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it. — Dr. John
Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain. — John Bradshaw
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
Chance And Change Quotes
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. — Trent Shelton
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. — Jacob M. Braude
Take the risk or lose the chance.
In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again. — Zig Ziglar
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness. — Rupert Brooke
We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. — Bono
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. — Bryce Courtenay
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. — Jaimie Alexander
Risk And Reward Quotes
Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us. — David Platt
Our corporate executives speculate with their shareholders’ assets because they get big personal rewards when they win—and even if they lose, they are often bailed out with public funds by obedient politicians. We privatize profit and socialize risk. — Edward O. Thorp
If I could only own one asset for the next 10 years, it would be bitcoin $BTC It encapsulates all of my larger macro views and feels like the point on the far horizon we are headed to, in some shape or form. Yes, like gold too and many other things but BTC risk/reward beats all. — Raoul Pal
Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow.
You don't climb mountains without a team, you don't climb mountains without being fit, you don't climb mountains without being prepared and you don't climb mountains without balancing the risks and rewards. And you never climb a mountain on accident - it has to be intentional. — Mark Udall
Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. — Naval Ravikant
The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves. — Susan RoAne
The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion — Joe Rogan
The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. — Jack Canfield
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?" — Peter R. Scholtes
The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line. — Sam Zell
Risk And Success Quotes
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult — Seneca
I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that. — Stephen Curry
Awareness, price and value, successful risk dealing — Howard Marks
You're never going to see any success if you don't take risks with your time and money. Losing money is a part of the process. It's your real-life tuition. — Jaspreet Singh
I've found that a lot of successful poker players grew up poor. And I'm convinced that poor people have a risk tolerance that rich people don't have because poor people fundamentally don't value money that much because they're used to not having it. — Chamath Palihapitiya
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres
The key to success is having the courage to take risks and not be afraid of failure. — Joe Rogan
We've climbed in 60 to 75 kilometer an hour wind conditions without ropes, and yes we put in fixed lines when we can because of the safety. But it's all calculated risk and you have to be so flexible in doing this project, and that's why we've been so successful. We always climb with what we have. — Nirmal Purja
This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. — George Lucas
Adventure And Risk Quotes
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. — Randy Komisar
John F. Kennedy once said, ‘There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.’ — Pat Flynn
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. — Helen Keller
I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path. — Larry Crabb
I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. — Rene Dubos
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel
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
If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers... — Nas
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need — Parker J. Palmer
Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out. — Wiz Khalifa
Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. — Robert Kiyosaki
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken. — India.Arie
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
I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing. — Eartha Kitt
Risk Taking Quotes
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live. — Emile Hirsch
Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide! — Swami Vivekananda
Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in. — Coretta Scott King
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. — Ernest Hemingway
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking. — Henri Nouwen
Great things are achieved only when we take great risks. — Frederick the Great
I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. — Manuel Neuer
Research shows that when people get less than 7 hours of sleep per night, their chance of catching a cold triples, they report as much as 30% lower rates of wellbeing, risk of obesity soars, and they have less control over their hunger urges. — Dan Buettner
Leap, and the net will appear. — Julia Margaret Cameron
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. — Roger Babson
All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain? — Bob Dylan
If you give up on your dreams, what's left? — Jim Carrey
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere. — Simon Sinek
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything. — Mike Nichols
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. — Cynthia Heimel
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
When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! — George S. Patton
We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe. — James Badge Dale
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. — Daniel Barenboim
I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go. — Michael B. Jordan
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk — Craig Elliott
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing the risks you can't avoid. This permits you to play out the game untroubled by the certainty of the outcome. — Robert A. Heinlein
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it! — Emerson Fittipaldi
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
Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. — Larry Osborne
But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it. — Jessi Kirby
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. — Anthony Trollope
When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished! — Napoleon Bonaparte
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so. — Elizabeth Bennett
Our lives improve only when we take chances. — Walter Inglis Anderson
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