Quotes About Gamble

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

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

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.

The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

A gambler is nothing but a man who makes his living out of hope.

The Company had gambled everything – and won.

human phenomenon: our species' preference for "positively skewed outcomes"—ones with low-probability but enormous payoffs, even if the average of all payoffs is negative.

The Nuremberg Laws were a typical Hitlerian attempt to get out of a mess by taking a radical step, in effect a gamble, without thinking through the consequences.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.

Time to toss the dice

In life, he who risks nothing, gains nothing.' Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as it were.

Everyone knew that the RNC had decided to field a losing candidate in November, rather than gamble on one who would radicalize its traditional platform.