Sure Thing Quotes

• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, Way, Mindset

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

  Robert Burns

  Inspirational, Uncertainty Of Life, Cockiness

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• The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Persistence, Will And Determination

  Dale Carnegie, J. Oliver Crom, Michael A. Crom (2003). “The Sales Advantage: How to Get It, Keep It, and Sell More Than Ever”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

  Gary Gilmore

  Death, Dying, Born

  "The Book of Quotes". Book by Barbara Rowes, 1979.

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• No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

  M. Emmet Walsh

  Horse, Giving, Give Me

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• It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Player, Lasts

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• It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

  Napoleon Hill

  Preparation, Ifs

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.63, Penguin

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• I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.

  Frank Lampard

  Years, Relax, Use

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Running, Men, Order

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• There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

  Neil Simon

  Gambling, Risk

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• There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Guarantees In Life, Giving, Energy

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 18, 2016

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• If I lose today, I can look forward to winning tomorrow, and if I win today, I can expect to lose tomorrow. A sure thing is no fun.

  Leonard Marx

  Fun, Winning, Gambling

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• My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

  Henry Rollins

  Unconditional

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• A sure thing is no fun.

  Leonard Marx

  Fun, Gambling

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• That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hands, People, Technique

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• Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

  Nolan Gould

  Jobs, Rest Of Life, Acting

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• Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Dangerous

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• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doe, Income

  "Grundrisse". Book by Karl Marx (pp. 809 - 810), 1857-1858.

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• I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the abyss, every time.

  Tammara Webber

  Love Is, Leap Of Faith, Matter

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.102, Tammara Webber

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• What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Judging, World, Want

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• The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.

  Akio Morita

  Business

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• In true-life dramas, you have to do so much research. It's a big responsibility to make sure things are as correct as possible. In 'Robin Hood', you have more artistic license - it's all action, adventure and reaction. This gives everyone a chance to make their characters their own and to make them believable.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Drama, Adventure, Character

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