Quotation Explorer - 'Chances'

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done. - Turcois Ominek
Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness. - Adam Kovacevic
The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago. - Kristen McNulty
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
The more the problems in a society, the greater the chances of success. - Sunday Adelaja
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. - Lauren Oliver
I have learned that chances don’t always come to you; sometimes you have to create your own. - Abeer Allan
if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel
I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us. - Buffy Andrews
I personally believe in the power of second chances. - Terry McAuliffe
The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed. - James Dobson
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet. - Auliq Ice
You don't manifest dreams without taking chances. - Stephen Richards
The cost of living is going up while the chances of living are going down. - Flip Wilson
If you learned to live in mediocrity, you have never learned to live.if you still need introduction, you still need to work hard.If you want a short cut to success, try your WILL POWER.If you want a successful life, then take chances and make changes - Harsh Malik
So many people sabotagetheir own chances for happiness—don’t be one of them. - Domonique Bertolucci
Don’t take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire. - Dawn Gluskin
There are less chances of forgetting what you learn from failure - - Sanjeet Veen
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. - William Faulkner
Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime. - C. JoyBell C.
There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them. - Katja Michael
Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it. - Nabil N. Jamal
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher. - Eugene V. Debs
You create the action, the chances, the opportunities, the wealth, the happiness, the success, the rhythm, the speed, you control all the outcomes in your life! - Stan The Man SA
If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time. - Mark W. Boyer
Chances multiply when you take them. - Doug Pedersen
Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes! - Joanna Cole
When you judge yourself, chances are you also are judging others. True self-acceptance releases you from both. - Akiroq Brost
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again - Suzanne Collins
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. - Fran Lebowitz
Don't go through life with a closed mind. Allow innovations and creativity to flow. We should always challenge ourselves to excel in more ways than one. Be open to ideas or suggestions on how to improve. And, the chances of reaching your goals will increase enormously. - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
We only regret the chances we didn't take - Robin Dabhi
If you wear a big smile on your face and a really nice shoes on your feet, chances are that most people will like you. - Jay Bee
To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. - Sherman Alexie
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old. - L. Frank Baum
If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted. - Tanya Masse
With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words. - Auliq Ice
Let your actions be for a purpose and let them be taken with passion. Develop the habit of making the best use of your chances and your desires will come to pass! - Israelmore Ayivor
To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss. - Iain Banks
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life - Veronica Rossi
You have the courage to take chances. - Lailah Gifty Akita
New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way. - Auliq Ice
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken. - India.Arie
If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem. - N.K. Jemisin
Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny. - Pratik Akkawar
Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me. - Emma Claeys
Dare to take chances. Dare to take the path less traveled.You may never know where the path may lead you. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson
life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances! - Siddhartha Choudhary
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt. - Og Mandino
If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either. - Dick Cavett
Life is full of chances, and today I hope you take each and every one of them. - Chris Burkmenn
Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. - Woody Allen
Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again. - Scott Adams
The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation. - Vironika Tugaleva
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble onto something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling onto something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering
I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her. - Nina LaCour
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. - Gloria Swanson
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. - Trent Shelton
If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately. - Edward Hallett Carr
If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, we must make choices; take chances on the choices we've made; and, we will see changes. - Jamaal K Thornhill
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. - Dick Cavett
Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson
When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool. - P. J. O'Rourke
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. - Mary Tyler Moore
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering
Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better. - J'son M. Lee
The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. - Douglas Adams
A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him. - Auliq Ice
There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don’t take chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! - - RVM
The power of belief of an atheist towards God is proportional to the chances of worse unfortunate events. - Shihab Kazi
It’s said that ‘you have only one chance’ - but thereafter you have many chances don’t ever quit because chance has only a fifty-fifty probability and you never know when the probability will be in your favour. So toss around until heads you win and tails you don’t lose. - Amit Abraham
Don’t put all of your focus on dating. Typically, if you’re involved in outside activities and causes that you are passionate about, chances are that you’re meeting people with similar interests. - Auliq Ice
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. - Mark Twain
Life is not about chances, thinkings or probabilities, life is about atitudes - Rodrigo Mortara Almeida
The number of chances you give someone doesn't tell the world how loving you are without telling them how desperate you are to believe they care as much as you. True love resides in the first chance, stupidity in the second, opportunists in the third and scoundrels in the fourth. - Shannon L. Alder
Never trust a person whose smile doesn't reach their eyes, chances are they do similar thing when they "cry" - Just be sure you have that OSCAR ready next time they do this - Paul Isaacs
I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths. - Lailah Gifty Akita
One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances. - Anthony Liccione
Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
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
Spring gives hope that God believes in second chances. - Toni Sorenson
Qui-gon shook his head. 'No,' he said firmly. 'I'm not testing you, Obi-wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human. - Dave Wolverton
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. - Anthony Liccione
If you've gone through pain now, learned your lesson, chances are, you'll probably experience MINOR pain later in life. If you haven't witnessed any pain now, you might suffer greatly later in life. In the end, everyone is equal. - Amrita Ramanathan
Always try to be perceptive and observant in living, sensatory for details and diversity. Always try to see beyond the surface, and look in another perspective. Always try not to judge. Always seeks new experience, embrace and took chances. To live life maximally and develop into a better person. - Nin
Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems. - Gary Hopkins
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot. - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
After failure, don't worry much. There will always be more opportunities and second chances. - Auliq Ice
What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2... But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich! - Deyth Banger
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. - Anthony Walton
The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think. - Larry Page
Live In The Moment...Dance like it's your last dance...Sing like it's your last song...Laugh like it's your breath...And love like it's your last romance...Everyone isn't given second chances so seize the moment. - Theresa Lewis
*Customer service* is seldom about the customer; it is usually about the seller’s chances of making more money from that customer in future. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. - Ernest Dimnet
Chances in future are just like sunlight, open the windows to see them. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. - Woody Allen
One chance missing, makes losing more chances. - Abdulsalam Unshur
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making - Reba McEntire
Insecurities make girls believe they don't have voices and they can't say what they need to say. The more they know the importance of their voices and gain confidence, the better chances of greatness the world will have. - Paballo Seipei
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often. - Brian Tracy
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe when you're not in the middle of the road... - Danny De Vito
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. - Viktor E. Frankl
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change. - Atul Purohit
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