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Quotes About Chances

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
Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.
~ Voltaire
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
Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.
~ Harvey Mackay
You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.
~ Joe E. Lewis
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
~ Russell Baker
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
~ Ai Weiwei
Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
~ Peter Jackson
You never know, life is short but it's wide
~ Wendy Mass
We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
~ Judith Thurman
Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW
~ Nicholas Sparks
Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all, I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.
~ Jerry Saltz
You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No pude evitar pensar en cuántas veces en la vida somos invitados a una aventura extraordinaria y a oportunidades que existen solamente en nuestra imaginación, y dejamos que se nos escapen.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Thirty-one children. Thirty-one chances. Thirty-one futures, our futures. It's an almost psychotic feeling, believing that part of their lives belongs to me.
~ Esmé Raji Codell
Churchill insisted that the Government stayed in Whitehall throughout the Blitz. 'Mr Churchill took the view', recorded Thompson, 'that it was essential that they took at least the same chances as the remainder of the population of London.
~ Andrew Roberts
Hace falta decirte, buen brujo, quiénes son las buenas personas? Son aquéllas a las que el destino les ha escatimado las ocasiones de disfrutar de las ventajas de ser malos. O aquéllas que sí han dispuesto de tales ocasiones, pero han sido demasiado estúpidas para aprovecharlas.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Or we won't meet again," he added softly. "No one knows what's written for anybody. Or what will befall them.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.
~ Andy Rooney
Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
~ Ann Brashares
When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.
~ Dick Costolo
In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
~ Conan O'Brien
Conservatives who decried Trump's rise (and those who scoffed at his chances of winning a single primary were legion) are the same 'purist' boxing snobs who could never grasp the popularity - and populist legitimacy - of wrestling.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery