Take A Chance Quotes - Page 10

• You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

  John Foster Dulles

  Running, Art, Strong

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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• Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

  Selena

  Time, Hands, Choices

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• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  Danny DeVito

  Fun, Thinking, Safe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Art, Thinking, Challenges

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.

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• My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

  Jim Carrey

  Letting Go, Jobs, Father

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Moving, Fighting

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• Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

  Everette Lee DeGolyer

  Art, Past, Men

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• People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Criticism, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Think And Grow Rich”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Christian, Opportunity, Careers

  Ernest K. Gann (1986). “Fate is the Hunter: A Pilot's Memoir”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

  Demi Moore

  People, Identity, Steps

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• I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

  Chazz Palminteri

  People, Firsts, Chance

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• 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.

  Eric Thomas

  Life, Motivational, Play

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• 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

  Life, Memories, Past

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• Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Funny, Women, Age

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• Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Crazy, Ocean, Feet

  Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

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• When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Wedding, Gratitude

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

  Ernest Holmes

  Reality, Mind, Age

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.27, Penguin

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• Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticises you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

  Leah LaBelle

  Motivational, Positive, Being Strong

  "Jack Wilshere out for three months as Arsène Wenger's injury list grows" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2014.

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• Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Jobs, Risk, Dollars

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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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• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

  Herodotus

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 50, c. 440 BC.

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• I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.

  Elvis Presley

  Strong, Marijuana, Thinking

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• I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

  Toby Keith

  Wall, Balls, Chance

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• Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.42

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• Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

  Joyce Meyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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