Chances Are Quotes - Page 2

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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  Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Courage, Humor, Greatness

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Change, Second Chance

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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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• People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

  David Millar

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

  Maimonides

  Self Esteem, Decisions You Make, Risk

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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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• 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.

  Terri Clark

  Moving, Thinking, Safe

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• If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

  Pete Rose

  Second Chance, Giving, Needs

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  The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Inspirational, Morning, Business

  "Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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• There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Inspirational, Life, Women

  "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics". "The Village Voice" Magazine, 1983.

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• The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Intelligent, Alternatives

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• The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Risk

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• Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Mind, Matter

  Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn (1996). “On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection”, p.78, Hackett Publishing

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• But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

  Roald Dahl

  Life, Lucky, Might

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.33, Penguin

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• Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Dragons, Red

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that eveloution owes its generally progressive cource, its successive conquests, and the impresssion it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

  Jacques Monod

  Science, Acceptance, Giving

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• Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

  "Are We All Nerds Now?" by Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2013.

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• You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

  Bruce Lee

  Determination, Real, Fighting

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 161), 1996.

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