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• 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

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Walter Anderson (1988). “The Greatest Risk of All”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

  Josh Hartnett

  Hope, Believe, Love Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Evil, Erring

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 289

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

  Bette Midler

  Dance, Dream, Fear

  Song: The Rose, Album: The Rose, 1979

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• 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

  Time, Future, Risk

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Success, Courage

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• First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

  Oksana Baiul

  Second Chance, Giving, Thank God

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

  Mel Brooks

  People, Doe, Comedy

  "Springtime of Brooks' autumn years" by John Ezard, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

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• America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

  George W. Bush

  Second Chance, Land, America

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

  Dick Cavett

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Regret, Winning, Hands

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• How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

  Johnny Depp

  Musical, Serial Killer, Killers

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• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Beer

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82., 1922.

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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Luck, Faults, Reason

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• Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
  And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

  Juvenal

  Toss, Fool, Wheels

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• But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Guilty

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene 4, l. 548

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Just keep taking chances and having fun.

  Garth Brooks

  Fun, Reincarnation, Having Fun

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• Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

  Sophocles

  Self Reliance, Atman, Helping

  "Japan's Diplomacy: Ensuring Security and Prosperity". Speech by Taro Aso, Prime Minister of Japan, japan.kantei.go.jp. June 30, 2009.

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• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Basketball, Educational

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• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Positive, Army, Positivity

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