Take A Chance Quotes Page 2

If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc.

, and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake.

You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

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.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

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.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

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.

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

Don't go overboard in praising required behavior: 'We have only done our duty' (Luke 17:10). But do go overboard when your child confesses the truth, repents honestly, takes chances, and loves openly. Praise the developing character in your child as it emerges in active, loving, responsible behavior.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat.

You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith.

Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

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

When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

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

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

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.