Chance Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.

  Sam Shepard

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Remembering Sam Shepard: The Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Author's 10 Best Quotes on Writing, Love and Life" by Olivia Ladd, parade.com. July 31, 2017.

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• For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Night, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• 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

  Crazy, Gone, Want

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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• Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Eye, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2017

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• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Change, Second Chance

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• It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

  Henri Nouwen

  Choices, Mets

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• You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

  Ernie Banks

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

  Patrick Warburton

  Believe, Independent, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  Jack Dempsey

  Justice, Fairness, Ethics

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• The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Temptation, Another Chance, May

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• Luck is being ready for the chance.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Inspirational, Athlete, Luck

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• We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

  Andrew Greeley

  Romantic Love, Second Chance, Give Me A Chance

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• We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

  William J. Clinton

  Confusion, People, Childhood

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• Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

  David Elkind

  Inspirational, Teenager, Choices

  David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Clever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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• Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

  John Milton

  Math, Umpires, Decision

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Courage, Mistake

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• How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

  Ziggy Marley

  Mean, Dumb Questions, Slim

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• Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• 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

  Single, Hurt, Hate

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• We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

  Al Sharpton

  Second Chance, Giving, Leader

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