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Chance refers to the occurrence of events or outcomes that are unpredictable, random, or subject to uncontrollable forces or probabilities. Often associated with luck or fate, chance plays a significant role in various aspects of life, including decision-making, risk-taking, and the natural unfolding of events. The concept of chance is deeply ingrained in mathematical probability, statistics, and gaming, but also has philosophical implications, touching on questions of free will, determinism, and the nature of the universe.
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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"Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes."
Preity Zinta"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough."
David Packard"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."
Franz Liszt"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
Bruce Springsteen"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
Paulo Coelho"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
Maimonides"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn"Good luck is a residue of preparation."
Jack Youngblood"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor."
Neil Simon"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances."
Mario Andretti"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
John Paul Jones"Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom."
Cat Cora"The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."
Richard Dawkins"The only safe thing is to take a chance."
Mike Nichols"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Stephen Leacock"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Hunter S. Thompson"Just keep taking chances and having fun."
Garth Brooks"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
Margaret J. Wheatley"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
Robert Collier"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
Cher"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
James A. Garfield"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
Ronald Reagan"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus"Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A."
Charlie Day"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."
Dick Cavett"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act."
Maxwell Maltz"If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters."
Tracy Chapman"Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football."
Gary Lineker"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."
Henry James"Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks."
Waylon Jennings"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."
Chuck Palahniuk"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"Some folk want their luck buttered."
Thomas Hardy"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. -Daniel Day"
Lewis"I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them."
Kevin Costner"I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else."
Cyndi Lauper"Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run."
Wild Bill Hickok"Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance."
Ayrton Senna"There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'"
Om Malik"You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right."
Louis Tomlinson"Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year impeachment fiasco based on a contrived pretext that had no chance of prevailing."
Tom Fitton"I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly."
Sean Connery"Anyone who has the chance to drive for Ferrari will drive for Ferrari."
Charles Leclerc"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Chuck Yeager"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
Walter Scott"Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest."
Howard Graham Buffett"But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along."
Melinda Gates"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
Pauline Kael"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington"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"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
James Cash Penney"A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode."
Prabhas"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
Abigail Adams"Take the risk. Take the chance. Put your heart and soul into it, because when you put your soul into it, you will become what you've always dreamed. You yourself will become a legend."
Jamie Brewer"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
Oprah Winfrey"We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance."
Anita Baker"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
Dianne Feinstein"For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives."
Erin McKean"When we first did 'Big Night Out,' there was no chance of someone doing a little show in a pub then being on telly. There was a little Oxbridge route in and an old-fashioned variety route."
Bob Mortimer"The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women."
Nancy Astor"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"If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state."
Cate Blanchett"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
Samuel Butler"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish."
Ovid"I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash."
Magic Johnson"Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence."
James Cash Penney"I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive."
Robert Redford"Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study."
William Hurt"I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life."
Corazon Aquino"To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky."
Harvey Fierstein"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
Pierre Trudeau"A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker."
Ann Bancroft"Care and diligence bring luck."
Thomas Fuller"Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation, our economy and our collective prosperity. It gives us a chance to show gratitude for workers' grit, dedication, ingenuity and strength, which define our nation's character."
Tom Perez"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world."
Dolores Huerta"The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence."
Paul Auster"Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance."
Jennifer Winget"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
Spike Milligan"To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again."
Ricky Nelson"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems."
Gever Tulley"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
Samuel Johnson"If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance."
Paul Merson"The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success."
Jack Canfield"Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance."
King George V"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."
Roger Maris"I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."
Hunter S. Thompson"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
Arthur Erickson"When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish."
Carine Roitfeld"Since my 'Crown of Midnight' tour in 2013, we've had such a rapid jump in audience numbers that we've had to move to bigger venues, cap events, and find new and creative ways to keep the line flowing while still allowing me the chance to chat with each person, which will always be very, very important to me."
Sarah J. Maas"To be successful, one must take chances."
Willie Stargell"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Jean Cocteau"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
George S. Patton"Living is risking."
Jeanne Moreau"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
Anais Nin"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."
Jonas Salk"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries."
Theodore Isaac Rubin"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
Charles Kettering"I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice."
Guy Laliberte"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."
Jean Nidetch"When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from."
Mohamed Salah"I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world."
Jack Lew"It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it."
Gustavo Dudamel"Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything."
Riz Ahmed"I do like to think of myself as a star: because there's room for many stars up in the sky - and we all have the chance to shine bright."
Mj Rodriguez"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."
Ovid"Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces."
Steven Spielberg"I want to show how strong and smart women are. We go through so much. We need to see that on screen. Those female parts are not many, but they are out there, and I have to find some. I want that chance."
Ana de Armas"When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work."
Thich Nhat Hanh"The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences."
Kevin Chapman"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Samuel Goldwyn"Taking risks gives me energy."
Jay Chiat"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"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."
Paula Cole"The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team."
Jerry Jones"It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time."
RM"I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
Arnold Palmer"If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good."
Bryan Cranston"I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives."
Michael N. Castle"I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging."
Gisele Bundchen"Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."
Gary Ryan Blair"It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
Mark Twain"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Plutarch"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."
Tiger Woods"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
Sammy Hagar"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. -Jean"
Paul Sartre"Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance."
Max Weber"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve."
Pat Summerall"When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream."
J. C. Watts"I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver."
Sebastian Vettel"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Simone Weil"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
Jean Piaget"Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it's a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts - it's fuel for my creative process."
Connor Franta"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."
Desmond Tutu"Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity. -G"
Eazy"When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions."
Poo Bear"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
Emily Dickinson"I was a bowler - left arm, smash it down as fast as I could. I did a lot of work with Damian D'Oliveira, and I probably had a chance of doing that for a living. But when I reached 16, I knew I couldn't carry on playing both football and cricket, and I was already in the Shrewsbury squad."
Joe Hart"Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes."
Murray Rothbard"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."
Andrew Jackson"Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right."
William Feather"I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks."
Werner Herzog"When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling."
Mary Chapin Carpenter"People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know."
Richard P. Feynman"The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in the same direction, with the same motives, the same desires, and then you have a chance."
Mike Holmgren"I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall."
Toby Keith"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."
Alexis de Tocqueville"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"I think the harder you work, the more luck you have."
Dave Thomas"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."
Havelock Ellis"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
Michel de Montaigne"There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life."
Aubrey de Grey"You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you."
Yingluck Shinawatra"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
Sun Tzu"There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not."
Christopher Walken"I remember being 18 and being fed up with everything - fed up with society, fed up with the political system, fed up with myself - and then you kind of go, 'Actually, this voting thing is amazing,' because you have a chance to change it, right?"
Cillian Murphy"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share."
Steve Ballmer"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance."
Alex Rodriguez"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right."
M. S. Swaminathan"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham"I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that."
Mary Roach"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."
Flip Wilson"Whenever I have a chance to wake up and be alive, I always thank God for that, and for me, all the rest is a bonus."
Emmanuel Adebayor"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."
Stanislaw Lem"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
Democritus"Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily."
Christopher Voss"I spent two summers working at Camp Curry and at Yosemite Lodge as a waiter. It gave me a chance to really be there every day - to hike up to Vernal Falls or Nevada Falls. It just took me really deep into it. Yosemite claimed me."
Robert Redford"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."
Vivienne Westwood"I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while."
Mick Taylor"Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything."
Rachael Taylor"Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material."
Ed Pastor"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Henry David Thoreau"I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances."
John Sculley"It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line."
Wendy O. Williams"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"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck."
B. C. Forbes"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
Sophocles"Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact."
Sean McDermott"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom."
John Gray"Back in those days, a parent looked at the disability and didn't see the ability. 'Life Goes On' showed that people with a disability can be included. Just give them a chance and let them learn. That's what the show was trying to teach."
Chris Burke"I am a sleepy fellow. I will take a nice long nap the first chance I get."
Ruskin Bond"If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction."
Sam Walton"Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance."
Ciara"What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion."
Olympia Snowe"Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings."
Letitia Baldrige"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
Orison Swett Marden"I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time."
Victor Webster"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"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
Voltaire"When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam."
Fabrizio Moreira"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."
Bono"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."
Dave Brubeck"You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly."
Bear Grylls"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
Boris Johnson"I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion."
Naomi Wolf"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"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
Paul Harvey"Practice every time you get a chance."
Bill Monroe"Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women."
Ann Richards"Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
Edward VIII"Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries."
Hugh Mackay"A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game."
Doug Collins"It's an exciting time in the world - democracy, in all its different shapes, is rolling around to new countries all the time. To have a chance to shape the democracy in my home country is an honor."
Vitali Klitschko"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!"
Davy Crockett"The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players."
Daniel Lyons"I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off."
Lindsey Vonn"If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances."
Rob Lowe"I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did."
Leonardo DiCaprio"You need not give others a chance to exploit you always. We should know what kind of exploitation is taking place. I cannot create an incident to say that women have been exploited in Malayalam film industry."
Sreenivasan"If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third."
Pete Rose"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."
Kent Nerburn"It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series."
Albert Pujols"Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police."
Tony Blair"The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women."
Atifete Jahjaga"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
Tacitus"I really didn't want to leave the show, but I got a chance to do a movie, which meant I would have had to miss two shows, and at the time Lorne had a policy where you can't miss shows, so I left."
Jon Lovitz"I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender."
Brian Eno"People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."
Frank Sinatra"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"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."
Charlize Theron"When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers."
Mr. T"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."
Florence Kelley"The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean."
Sheri L. Dew"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
Marcel Proust"This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance."
Ilhan Omar"It's OK to be hard on yourself, just know you have another chance to go out and prove yourself again."
Brandon Ingram"I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link."
David Morse"Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether."
Luis Bunuel"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
Jane Austen"I have this creative mind where I can create a lot of different things, but a lot of people never really gave me the chance and opportunity to do that because when they see me, they just see this dumb fighter that fights in the cage and howls like a wolf and knocks people out."
Quinton Jackson"I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear."
Nicolas Cage"I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it."
Penny Pritzker"It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!"
Alexander Woollcott"Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it."
Gene Robinson"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
Charles Kuralt"Empathy is a skill like any other human skill - and if you get a chance to practice, you can get better at it. -Simon Baron"
Cohen"The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been like that since I was young. I knew I had to take my chance when it came. Nobody gives you anything. You have to go and take it and this was the way I think."
Abdoulaye Doucoure"Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice."
Wislawa Szymborska"If people want to take the chance to watch, to see what I bring and try to use it to better themselves, yeah, OK. But I'm not one of these guys who's going to try to be a role model and be an angel because I want to get a Nike sponsorship."
Israel Adesanya"I keep my inner circle of people very small and tight, and I like to relax if I get a chance."
Dean Ambrose"I believe you only have one chance on this earth, and I'm just trying to live my life and do what makes me happy."
CM Punk"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox"At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable."
Leonard Cohen"You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name."
Gavin Newsom"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt"You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!"
Mr. T"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."
Robert Altman"Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course. -Ban Ki"
moon"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
Albert Camus"If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation - you know, just chilling out. -Lee Min"
ho"Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural."
Michel Foucault"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
Benjamin Disraeli"Great customer service does not come by chance. It is the result of training and ensuring there are enough assistants to serve the customers."
Theo Paphitis"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."
Laura Schlessinger"This pandemic has provided an opportunity to reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems, that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change."
Pierre Poilievre"If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future."
Caterina Fake"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."
William Ernest Henley"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."
Patrick Swayze"It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure."
Kimbal Musk"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
Ezra Pound"I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there."
Yngwie Malmsteen"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent."
Laurence J. Peter"When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape."
Thomas Kail"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."
Joseph Conrad"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
Alexander Pope"Left to their own devices, the Tories will squash the life out of what Brexit really represents in terms of the chance to shake up political life and overturn a complacent status quo. We cannot let that happen."
Claire Fox"We need to afford people from minority groups and marginalized communities the chance to inhabit spaces they're often held out of because of stereotyping."
Patti Harrison"When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck."
E. W. Howe"You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it."
Casey Stengel"The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks."
Charles de Gaulle"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes. -Edward G. Bulwer"
Lytton"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
Henry Kissinger"If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin."
Narendra Modi"Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder."
Tia Mowry"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."
Paul Simon"The star-jump technique - that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance."
Peter Schmeichel"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."
Jack Nicholson"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Thomas Jefferson"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
Henry Van Dyke"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"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
Arsene Wenger"I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike."
Blake Lively"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."
Bette Davis"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
Jimmy Johnson"As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening."
Alice Walker"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."
Richard M. DeVos"If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled."
Red Skelton"If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry."
Ada Yonath"I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores."
Fei Fei Sun"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign."
Anatole France"If we are gong to be an outstanding team, we need players who are going to step up in the big moments and realise, every time they play for England, they have the chance to be involved in an iconic moment, a historic performance, and that they have that choice every time they go on the field."
Gareth Southgate"One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance."
John Barrow"I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television."
Dana Carvey"Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance."
Condoleezza Rice"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
H. G. Wells"You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet."
Hugh Hefner"I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks."
Billie Jean King"Luck marches with those who give their very best."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."
Walt Disney"'Bring Me The Head of The Taskmaster' is a unique chance for one person to prove they are the ultimate Tasker. This interactive book is more than just a spin off, it provides a unique 'Taskmaster' experience into which you can dive and then swim around in search of treasure."
Alex Horne"Starting off, I was pretty arrogant. They handed an 18-year-old the keys to a D1 FBS-contending university. I blew up a little bit, said some things I didn't mean, and that follows you. You get one chance to make a first impression. I made the wrong one."
Josh Rosen"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
Richard Pryor"There will be byes, there will be catches that will go down, but what is important is what you do when the next chance arrives. Because there will always be a next catch. If you are not positive, if you are not in a good frame of mind, you can drop that next one, too."
Rishabh Pant"All we are saying is give peace a chance."
John Lennon"My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism."
Wayne Brady"Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies."
Blake Lively"Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious."
Bayard Taylor"Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then."
Garrison Keillor"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."
Earl Weaver"'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?"
Alex Gibney"If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth."
Roberto Clemente"The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong."
Andy Rooney"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"
Dwight D. Eisenhower"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."
Thomas Fuller"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
Aldous Huxley"No man was ever wise by chance."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best."
Dabo Swinney"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."
Arthur Ransome"There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance."
Rachel Griffiths"Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases."
Alice Roberts"Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em."
Brad Pitt"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Henry Kissinger"The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble."
Sidney Crosby"If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person."
Thich Nhat Hanh"It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood."
George Eastman"The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'"
Han Fei"Just, whenever you can, get up and sing at a gig or jam. If you have a chance, take it and keep on getting up. Keep going - but not If people boo, 'cause that's just mean. I think that could be setting yourself for disappointment."
Sia"Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience."
David Call"Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives."
Cathy Rindner Tempelsman"Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance."
Calvin Coolidge"Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen."
Salma Hayek"Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it."
Lee Iacocca"And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it."
Novak Djokovic"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
Mark Twain"When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head."
Bill Murray"Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place."
John Barrow"To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences."
William H. McRaven"Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure."
Charles M. Schwab"The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you."
Mike Love"We can all agree that social media is an amazing platform where we can interact with and meet people and that we probably would have never had the chance to otherwise, right? However, it also has sadly become a place where some people go to share negative thoughts and comments."
Peyton List"I do believe in humanism, and I believe that we should treat each other with respect and care and look after each other. All human beings should have an equal chance to survive in society, and inequality is a big problem in society."
Stellan Skarsgard"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'"
Demetri Martin"Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am."
Booker T"We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children."
Justin Trudeau"There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well."
Jeff Greenfield"The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance."
Aaron Sorkin"If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one."
James D. Watson"Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things."
Joe Biden"When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in."
Frank McCourt"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
Ambrose Bierce"Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills."
Tom Peters"I like to show my ability on the field. I'm not one to show off with words. I'm really looking forward to the chance. I'm a calm goalkeeper, and above all, I've got a real desire to win. When I get on the pitch, I give everything for the team, everything for the shirt."
Alisson"Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life."
Gary Gygax"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
Francesco Guicciardini"If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any."
Clarence Day"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."
Carl Sagan"When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself."
Tom Kite"I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!"
Isoroku Yamamoto"If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream."
Michelle Obama"Any time you get on the field, there's a possible chance of that happening. I think you're trying to make a play, and there is an inherent risk where you could get blindsided."
Pat McAfee"I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time."
Roddy Ricch"When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?"
Al Pacino"When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet."
Sally Ride"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
Euripides"If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs."
Peter Diamandis"I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship."
Gail Sheehy"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Richard Linklater"If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance."
Gina Barreca"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."
Joyce Carol Oates"Good luck has its storms."
George Lucas"I'm all about giving up-and-coming people a chance."
Lil Baby"Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance."
Michael Cudlitz"Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time."
Bobby Riggs"You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift."
Alex Honnold"There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance."
Roger Penrose"I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest."
Florynce Kennedy"Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes."
Joni Eareckson Tada"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln"Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
Isaac Newton"Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better."
Joel Burns"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."
Bill Gates"I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don't give yourself the best chance of winning, you're going to kick yourself tomorrow."
James Holzhauer"Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance."
Tom Hodgkinson"A trap in dealing with difficult people is getting wrapped up in their personality. When we can stay objective and remove ourselves from other people's roller-coaster psychology, we have a much better chance of moving through the situation positively."
Tara Stiles"Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."
Vaclav Havel"Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth."
Nick Nolte"Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."
Ric Ocasek"The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it."
Roger Babson"Everything comes from your mind. You have to push yourself to get things going in your direction. If you are stubborn, nothing will help. If you are sad, nothing will help. You have to keep positive and to work very well for your next chance."
Henrikh Mkhitaryan"Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it."
Emilie Autumn"Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people."
Sam Walton"I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb."
Sandra Oh"I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive."
CeeLo Green"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"My dad's American, and my mom's French. I lived in France for the first 18 years of my life, then came here to go to school at the College of William and Mary. I studied marketing. I really didn't know what I wanted to do, so I thought that's what I should do - study business - because it would give me the best chance to find work."
Stephanie Szostak"I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance."
Kim Reynolds"My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance."
Denis Leary"If you're somebody that gets a chance to go somewhere... that has to work somewhere or go to another city, then do your best to see it. Because I just think that's the best way to have an interesting life."
Brad Paisley"I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances."
Carmen Electra"It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal."
Carol Alt"In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line."
Tom Clancy"My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book."
Tessa Virtue"I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, 'Well, you talk too slow,' or, 'You rap too slow,' when in reality, that was my uniqueness."
Mase"Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable."
Hope Jahren"'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest."
Len Dawson"The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright."
Alain Badiou"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
Aristotle"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
Jack Ma"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
Abraham Lincoln"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"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
Harvey Fierstein"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
Harrison Ford"If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun."
Lindsey Vonn"I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort of pounce out of the jungle."
Josh Homme"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
Uta Hagen"From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world."
Dick Cheney"I always leave room for serendipity and chance."
Ken Stott"When you dub for your own character, it is the last chance to play the part again."
Sanya Malhotra"Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."
Samuel Johnson"I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself."
Walt Mossberg"All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity."
Muhammad Yunus"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."
Arnold Palmer"Sometimes in life, you're not always given a second chance, but if you do, take advantage of it, and go out with a bang!"
Aquaria"The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you."
Scott Adams"Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance."
Maria Konnikova"I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal. -Katarina Johnson"
Thompson"It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates."
Julia Roberts"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
Mary McLeod Bethune"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
Ansel Adams"People think rationally that the world really is more risky. Imagine in 2008 that investors thought there was a 10% chance we'd have a depression. That would partly justify the drop in prices."
Eugene Fama"I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into."
Chris Hardwick"I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know."
Krzysztof Kieslowski"This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances."
Ronnie Milsap"Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life."
Estelle"I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity."
Tyler Cowen"I love taking chances."
Wayne Newton"I just have to take my chances like any other composer."
Gordon Getty"Nobody could have predicted the effect of John Bonham's drum introduction on 'Good Times, Bad Times,' because no matter what he'd played in before, he'd never had the chance to flex his muscles and play like John Bonham."
Jimmy Page"If you don't love the Dodgers, there's a good chance you may not get into Heaven."
Tommy Lasorda"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
Charles Kettering"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention."
Douglas Horton"Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks."
Mary Quant"When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening."
Glennon Doyle Melton"Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home."
Tony Dungy"I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it."
Shawn Michaels"For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes."
Eric Topol"Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature."
Reinhold Messner"I learned that the majority of the time, simplicity is the best way to go about things as you peel away the layers... that's when you start finding the gold... I can't say that was from my own acting. That was from observing actors like John Spencer and Martin Sheen... I had a chance just to observe."
Dule Hill"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
David Elkind"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
Gore Vidal"The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream."
Hannah Teter"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
Phyllis Diller"You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes."
Victoria Monet"If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life."
Shreya Ghoshal"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
Alan Ladd"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."
Friedrich Schiller"Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things."
Dana Perino"David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice."
Mario Cuomo"I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things - then she should not give the guy a chance as she's wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives."
Patti Stanger"I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves."
Annie Leibovitz"There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people."
Al Sharpton"I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance."
El DeBarge"I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently."
Sam Raimi"An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same."
Daniel Kahneman"I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it."
Robert Griffin III"I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis."
Amy Purdy"Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success."
Patricia Ireland"I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances."
Robert Fulghum"My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory."
Rory McIlroy"The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound."
Jacques Derrida"While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance."
Diane Guerrero"Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people."
Marcus Garvey"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax"I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus."
Amos Oz"Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance."
Hillary Clinton"My weekend might not start on a Friday like everyone else's, because I could be working on Saturday and Sunday. But when I do get the chance to have some weekend time, I like to hang out with my friends and just chill out on the couch - maybe we'll watch a documentary or a comedy."
Ashley Roberts"It's so weird how our existence hinges on just absolute crazy chance, but it feels so essential. It's like, 'Nothing would be here if you weren't here,' because you are the centre of your universe."
Sheila Heti"A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation."
Neale Donald Walsch"The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design."
Fritz Zwicky"Growing up, I got a chance to witness a lot of struggle in my neighborhood. A lot of people struggled, myself included. As I got older I noticed that there was still a lot of struggling going on."
Scarface"I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it."
David Attenborough"Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves."
Gever Tulley"Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted."
Laz Alonso"Some people are fighting much, much more important battles and much bigger battles, and if we get the chance to put a smile on their face for ten seconds, it's so worth it."
Dolph Ziggler"In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game."
Earl Weaver"We've been around for awhile, had a lot of success. Got a chance to sit around and go, 'Oh, yeah, we're pretty good.'"
Nancy Wilson"My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books."
Greg Rutherford"One chance is all you need."
Jesse Owens"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."
Maurice Ravel"It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral."
Leland Ryken"A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney."
Richard Branson"There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age."
John Agyekum Kufuor"Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?"
Mandy Patinkin"'Liberal Fascism' is less an expose of left-wing hypocrisy than a chance to exact political revenge. Yet, the title of his book aside, what distinguishes Goldberg from the Sean Hannitys and Michael Savages is a witty intelligence that deals in ideas as well as insults - no mean feat in the nasty world of the culture wars."
David Oshinsky"A rematch is one of those things that will always be there when you remove a champion, and it's something you definitely need to give them - that chance for a rematch. That's the only way to do it."
Holly Holm"If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?"
Naveen Andrews"Luck relies on chance, labor on character."
Richard Cobden"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."
George Savile"I don't want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It's a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life. -Wong Kar"
wai"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life."
Steve Jobs"Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow."
Chief Joseph"Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink."
Deb Caletti"Retail is undergoing a massive change, and there is a chance for new leaders to emerge and older brands to reinvent themselves."
Kirsten Green"Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen."
Benny Green"We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness."
Thich Nhat Hanh"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
William Gilbert"I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real."
John Grant"You never say never. There's always a chance to do things in the future."
Nick Cummins"It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style."
Lil Durk"As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?"
Klaus Schwab"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good."
Bob Greene"When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted."
Lane Kiffin"I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such an early age."
Huma Qureshi"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
Anne Bradstreet"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
Shania Twain"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education."
Rod Blagojevich"Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No."
Monte Irvin"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance."
Pep Guardiola"No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so."
Xenophanes"I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid."
Brian May"The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere."
Sylvia Earle"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."
Sophocles"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."
Bela Lugosi