Taking Chances Quotes

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

Theodore Roosevelt

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It’s like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don’t want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

Mary McLeod Bethune

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.

Lailah GiftyAkita

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many opportunities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now?

Nadège Richards

When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Barbara Kingsolver

A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reason she had forced herself to keep her distance from love. Why she had given up on trusting someone not to hurt her. Because a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was an unbearable pain to endure. And sometimes, no matter how much you want to be with someone, there’s never a guarantee that they want you back.

Courtney Giardina

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren't second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn't take a first chance at? That's true failure.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

Charles F. Glassman

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make.

I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.

Charles F. Glassman

Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.

Charles F. Glassman

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

Charles F. Glassman

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

Charles F. Glassman

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

Charles F. Glassman

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

Give second chances, third chances, but not a fourth, a fifth, a sixth and so on. Appreciate yourself and understand your worth – know it takes time for people to change, to become better. But know what you can take and what you deserve.

Dominic Riccitello

Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!

Anthony Liccione

Somethings worth having defy logic. They come with obstacles, challenges, battles and long periods of wandering in the dark. Your path won't make sense to your family or friends. People will weigh in with their life rules and fears, but in the end it is your life. That pull you feel is real and often your intuition. It nags at you everyday. Follow it for as far as it takes you because life is too short to dwell on indecision, while you forget to live. Take a chance because if you have a good heart God isn't going to abandon you. He will travel wherever you need to go, in order to find the missing pieces of your soul.

Shannon L. Alder

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole?You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.

Shannon L. Alder

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Curtis Sittenfeld

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

‎"What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn't?" "Like what?" "Like if you were trying to get somewhere, but you couldn't find it? Does that mean something bad?" "No. It doesn't mean something bad. It just means you have a second chance to do it. And two chances is always better than just one.

In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.