Sure Thing Quotes

• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, Way, Mindset

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Uncertainty Of Life, Cockiness

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Persistence, Will And Determination

  Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Horse, Giving, Give Me

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• Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

  Gary Gilmore

  Death, Dying, Born

  "The Book of Quotes". Book by Barbara Rowes, 1979.

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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• I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Relax, Use

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

  Napoleon Hill

  Preparation, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.63, Penguin

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• There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

  Neil Simon

  Gambling, Risk

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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• There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Guarantees In Life, Giving, Energy

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 18, 2016

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• If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

  Leonard Marx

  Fun, Winning, Gambling

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• My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

  Henry Rollins

  Unconditional

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• A sure thing is no fun.

  Leonard Marx

  Fun, Gambling

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• All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Adversity, Ignorance

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• When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Winning, Gold

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• Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

  Adam Riess

  Dark, Energy, Movement

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• Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

  Tim Witherspoon

  Kings, Winning, Boxing

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• There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Things In Life, Action, Follow Through

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Cities, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

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• People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing.

  John Steinbeck

  Wise, Jobs, Children

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