Top 464 Chance Quotes

Here we have the best Chance Quotes from famous authors such as Eric Schneiderman, Alexander Fleming, Bret Hart, Gary Ryan Blair, Nivin Pauly. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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Games of chance often involve some amount of skill; this does not make them legal. Good poker players often beat novices. But poker is still gambling, and running a poker room – or online casino – is illegal in New York.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this – never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

Alexander Fleming
You can take your Jake Roberts and your Hulk Hogans and your Ultimate Warriors and a lot of these guys that were big names back then, but they never did anything for me. They never helped me, they never thought of helping me, and when they had a chance to help me, they never did.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair
I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning – like a new chance we get to renew our lives, perhaps? Starting it by praying gives me a lot of hope for the future.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have another chance if you want it. You know, if we – if this isn’t going well, you can’t say – well, you could say – let’s stop. Let’s start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about.

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you’re not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it’s cheapersometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you’re going to be mad.

Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I love taking chances.

Wayne Newton
I look at Puff Daddy as somebody that gave me a chance to prove the whole world wrong. Cause when I used to think about rap, everybody would say, ‘Well, you talk too slow,’ or, ‘You rap too slow,’ when in reality, that was my uniqueness.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Kung Fu‘ was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I should do a movie right away, because I think when you leave a television series, it’s important that you establish the fact that you’re a movie actor really quickly, or you might never get that chance.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

When you think of things like medicine, people who have lost limbs now have a chance to have a limb replaced that is connected to the brain that they can actually control with their mind. That’s amazing.

I feel like if you do one album, you don’t give people the chance to judge you twice. If they judge you once and that legacy goes on, you’ll go viral.

Fivio Foreign
Usually when I’m out doing stuff, I’m just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don’t really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

As soon as I get the chance, I’ll be back spouting nonsense on the microphone.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Ask me for my shirt off my back, I’ll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

We need to make sure that there’s art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn’t in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn’t get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

Now that I’ve had a chance to play for a team where we won 30 or 35 games, you understand how special winning is.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

Henry Ossawa Tanner
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

There’s a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is – the fresher, the more transparent that system is – the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Dave Thomas
Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Gever Tulley
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Hugo Pratt
I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

I love reality TV shows like ‘Big Brother‘ where it’s smart game to vote off the strong competitors, especially early on to give the other people a fighting chance. From a game stance, it’s totally acceptable.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

Emilie Autumn
It is going to be difficult for the West Indies to get back to the top, but we got to start somewhere, and if playing young players is the way we have decided to go, these young players must be given the chance to mature and develop and not be discarded at an early age.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don’t get a chance to do that as much as I’d like. I don’t live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don’t get to do that much, either.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Maurice Ravel
I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I’m all about giving up-and-coming people a chance.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

The family you are born into is by chance and I am fortunate to be born into this family and be connected to some really cool people.

When you wake up every day, it’s like a new birthday: it’s a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.

The stuff I did in ‘Rescue Me’ was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then ‘Person of Interest’ came along. They’re all new experiences.

Kevin Chapman
We can all agree that social media is an amazing platform where we can interact with and meet people and that we probably would have never had the chance to otherwise, right? However, it also has sadly become a place where some people go to share negative thoughts and comments.

Looting has an immense impact on our ability to understand our global cultural heritage; once these objects are gone, so too is our chance of piecing together humanity‘s shared story.

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you’re willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it’s mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that’s what matters.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

I wanted to appeal to people who’ve never really listened to hip-hop or really given it a chance before. I’ve also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, ‘Fashion Killa’ is one of peoples’ favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It’s not there by chance.

For me, it’s always the script. The script which gives me the chance to do something new; that has been my prime objective ever since I started acting. There’s nothing else that excites me more than that.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

Ken Stott
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.

The guy comes up to the plate, there’s always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

Pancho Villa
I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

I am not a player who stays on the edge of the box and waits for a chance.

I just talk just to talk. I like to see what other people think. There’s some things somebody tweets me every day where I’m like, ‘Wow, I never thought of this issue that way.’ It starts great conversation with people who I would never get a chance to actually communicate with.

Torrey Smith
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

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
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

Edward VIII
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

I don’t think about losing or worry about losing. I’m not afraid to let it go and I don’t care if you beat me. If you do, that means you were the better man, but only elite fighters can beat me. There can’t be shame in losing because you are up against great competition and there’s always that chance.

Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

The guilty pleasure I miss most when I’m out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.

I know what I’m capable of and I had that chance to show that on the national team, but also, more importantly, the Summer League.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures – we are enhancing our own.

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Nancy Astor
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

We all have a responsibility, and since I’ve been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

All my mates are at university, and it’s a life I haven‘t had a chance to enjoy, so it’s great to turn up and sample a bit of it.

The Guns N’ Roses reunion didn’t happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Alexei Navalny
If I have the chance, I would like to write an emotional, sad ballad.

Given a chance, I would love to romance Tabu. I wouldn’t mind doing a film with Manisha Koirala, either. Or Madhuri Dixit.

By expediting the use of the 1619 Project, our schools are coming perilously close to cementing existing inequality, rather than giving kids the chance to escape it.

It really does frustrate me when I watch MLS, and I see our best U-17 players – who, again, are so talented and so capable – being rostered… but then not being put on the field much to actually play. I watch that, and I just think about how I was given a chance… a real chance… and it changed my life.

You have to get your motivation from within, and it doesn’t matter if you lose in the quarters, the semis, or the final. You must want to have another chance of winning the trophy.

When I pick up a book that’s, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn’t give the book its best chance to shine.

The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

Adam Garcia
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power.

Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It’s very important to take enormous risks.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you’re driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it’s going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

Isn’t that what we come into politics for? To say to people: ‘You can do it, too – there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.’ And that is what I tried to do.

Joan Kirner
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba.

Yoenis Cespedes
Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

Instead of saying ‘unique,’ I will say ‘Kattappava Kaanom’ is a very special and lucky film for me because I got the chance to step into Hindi film industry when I was in the shoot of this movie.

‘Chance the Rapper’ is many things. I’m constantly evolving.

We’d never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn’t been for space exploration and NASA.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune‘s expensive smile is earned.

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

A trap in dealing with difficult people is getting wrapped up in their personality. When we can stay objective and remove ourselves from other people’s roller-coaster psychology, we have a much better chance of moving through the situation positively.

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‘OK we’ll have another go’ instead of it being the only chance you get.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we’re on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

If you think that people can change… and, if they’ve grown and they’ve expressed contrition or regret, that they should be given a chance, then you should vote for me.

If you play against a Peyton Manning, that’s a great quarterback, but I’d rather have that quarterback that stays still. You have a better chance of getting to him. The mobile quarterbacks, they do a lot of different stuff.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you’re close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.

Charles Duke
A film like ‘Good Night And Good Luck,’ you make that for $7 million because you know it’s a black-and-white film, and it’s not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

Grant Heslov
Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ If you’re really engaged in the writing, you’ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana‘s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

I am a sleepy fellow. I will take a nice long nap the first chance I get.

I used my captors’ names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

You gotta learn that if you don’t get it by midnight, chances are you ain’t gonna get it, and if you do, it ain’t worth it.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

It’s a fact that if Hillary Clinton is elected, the country’s chance to have a Supreme Court that values the Constitution – and the genuine liberty and self-government for which millions have died – is gone. Not for four years, or eight, but forever.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology – from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you – suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

I’m going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I’ve learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.

J R Martinez
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Fred Brooks
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there’s no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you’ve got it, the law can keep you locked up because there’s no chance for cure.

Joseph Stefano
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

Gay Talese
I’m changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

Michael Cooper
Necessity is the mother of taking 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.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn’t get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

Tony Gwynn
I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you’ll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

Adam Ross
I think ultimately the goal is to try to bring a Super Bowl to New Orleans and that’s the reason I signed that deal, because I have a great chance at winning another Super Bowl with the New Orleans Saints.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

There’s talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

James Jannard
The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.

Wendy O Williams
It’s not that I don’t value my life. It’s just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

Wendy O Williams
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley
Trajectories aren’t linear. Life’s just a roller coaster. If you’re getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it’s varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I’m a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don’t have it, you’ve got no chance.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

William Wells Brown
I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I’ve made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

Jim Beaver
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

Paul Harvey
Nothing guarantees a championship. Nothing. Not having the best players, not practicing the most. Your best chance is if you do the right thing every day.

It’s luck that one thing works out and one doesn’t, it’s sort of happenstance.

I’ve been around watch factories and had the chance to visit some factories.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

I got a chance to act in a film, ‘Derailed.’ I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

If you keep having to dip into the story’s past to explain the present, then there’s a good chance your real story’s in the past, and you’re just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet.

Pierre Trudeau
My first love is football. When I get the chance, I play football for fitness.

Practice every time you get a chance.

Bill Monroe
I’m grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

Anthony Hemingway
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

If people want to take the chance to watch, to see what I bring and try to use it to better themselves, yeah, OK. But I’m not one of these guys who’s going to try to be a role model and be an angel because I want to get a Nike sponsorship.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

Konstantinos Karamanlis
Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

Peter Shilton
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

If we’re going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

We often don’t think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.

Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?

Usually, I’m a very positive guy. I try to think about the next chance, the next game, the next opportunity to play well.

I think Ada in ‘The Piano‘ is the most interior character I’ve ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I’ve done for film or TV.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

You need doors to open, you need a chance – and you have got to have something, to take your chance when the door opens at the right time. My first port of call was to be a manager, then it was a successful manager, then it was a Premier League manager.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I have not forgotten about my dreams to become a singer. If given the chance, I want to take part in a drama OST making and also try out for musicals.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Ashes of Time’ was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it’s not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Taking risks gives me energy.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

S I Hayakawa
It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I think about death all the time. I know there’s nothing out there, but I’m curious. There’s a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

If I go into a restaurant there’s a very good chance that I’m going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I’m happier having dinner here.

I loved the city of Chicago, and I love the Reinsdorfs. I’m forever grateful for them in taking a chance on me, allowing me to become the player that I am today. It’s still incredible to me that I got to hoop in a Bulls jersey.

But I believe I should have the chance to show how good I am at Arsenal.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Nancy Astor
It’s not about failure; it’s about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

I knew I’d been given another chance, another life in Australia by my parents, so I didn’t want to hurt them.

The one that achieved the greatest amount of success is the Eagles. And because it was really successful, it was a lot more fun. It still is. We get a chance to play music that a lot of people really relate to, and to play places all over the world. That’s fun.

If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation – you know, just chilling out.

I’ve got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

In life, there’s second chances. But that doesn’t mean everyone gets a second chance with your team. That’s where your moral compass comes in.

Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy‘s movie is wack, but they loved it.

Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get the innovative show, it’s very difficult.

James Burrows
We’d dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Bing Crosby
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

I was really proud of the response to the first series of ‘Blood.’ Right from the get-go I knew it was a really good yarn and that it would have a chance if we got it right.

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs.

I think the inspiration came from the fans. Whenever I’m online or whenever I get a chance to really communicate with the fans and the audience, they always say that they would love to have all of the remixes on one CD.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year’s Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men’s hockey team a chance against the world powers.

Gulaal’ gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I’m not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for ‘That Hagen Girl’, which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I’m not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I’m not talking about co-dependency, I’m talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don’t, you don’t.

The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

We don’t do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

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

A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.

Having the chance to win a gold medal doesn’t come around very often.

Whether or not your person wins or loses, give him a chance.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I’ve always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I go to the pub, hang out with my family – that’s pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I’m actually a pretty mellow guy.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

Everyone deserves a second chance. That’s just the way I am.

I even reject and condemn in the strongest terms the idea, the consideration of a military coup. If I had the chance I would stand in front of the people who would attempt such a thing and open my arms and beg them to stop.

There’s not going to be a ‘Rescue Me’ movie. Not a chance.

I’m just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don’t see every day.

I think there is always room for improvement, and every day is a chance to get better.

Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.

Chris Gronkowski
I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You’re grateful for these different chances.

Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on ‘Power’ is taking a chance on me.

I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Aaliyah
I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.

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

Jack Dempsey
I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children… and for defending in juvenile court those kids the ‘child protective system’ had missed when it had the chance.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There’s nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I always knew what I had, and I knew I was more than just ‘the foreign guy.’ I have personality, and as soon as I had chance to show it, I just did it. A lot of people don’t like it, and a lot of people frown upon it and think I should just be stuck in that box, but it’s just not me.

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin – where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she’s one of the superstars. She’s ready for the big one, but she doesn’t stand a chance against me. Women’s tennis is so far beneath men’s tennis; that’s what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I’ve been given in life.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don’t die of old age.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

When I received the call saying: ‘Bruno, you have the chance of moving to Manchester‘ I called my wife, my brother, my sister, my mother and just started crying. But I was crying through happiness.

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.

Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally – those are important things.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I don’t like rats, but there’s not much else I don’t like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they’re loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I’ve had them leap out of a lavatory while I’ve been sitting on it.

Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

On the web, people are experimenting with something new in terms of characters and stories. It is exciting for actors, as we get a chance to do something new.

Virginia State University gave me a chance to get out of my neighborhood and it showed me a different light for who I was in society.

There is no such thing as luck. It’s a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Since I carry my father’s name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Namie Amuro
But we also believe in taking risks, because that’s how you move things along.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.

I just won’t sing and dance in a film. But when you have a chance to star in an Abbas-Mustan film, why will anyone let it go? I have been lucky to do films which have been different from each other.

I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It’s amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It’s the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen
Yes, I used to miss my childhood, but I did get a chance to relive it through Esha and Ahaana.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

The star-jump technique – that is a big part of being a handball goalkeeper, and I brought that move into football. It is a very effective way of saving a chance.

It’s important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

If I got a chance to play with another great player, I want to do that. I mean, the objective is to win.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Bob Greene
I think in the case of horror, it’s a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

I want to give myself the best chance to finish on my own terms.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

Every business and every product has risks. You can’t get around it.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that’s fun.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Neil Simon
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

David Millar
I always show loyalty to the people who gave me a chance from the get-go, and Cincinnati gave me that chance.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough.

David Packard
I like chance meetings – life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

What’s amazing with ‘The X Factor’ is that it gives people a chance who wouldn’t normally have one. I couldn’t go on it, because it would be, like, me being lazy, because I’ve definitely had my opportunities.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I’m an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

Bennie Thompson
I don’t think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don’t give mathematics a real chance.

Maryam Mirzakhani
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.

Terri Clark
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective. If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to… emote.

Kerri Green
Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.

I don’t want to be a grumpy old man or too pessimistic, because if I have a chance, I would prefer to watch a film in the cinema with an audience on a big screen instead of watching it on a cell phone. It’s a very different experience, but somehow I think this form will have its own future and life.

When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man’s baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

Jacob K Javits
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

People have been saying life will change for us now but me? No chance. I may be a World Cup winner but I will always be the lad who played cricket with his friends and cousins in the park on Stoney Lane in south Birmingham using an old milk crate for stumps.

I’m a church musician. I play gospel music; that’s what I do. I never had a chance to produce gospel music, and I did a full album with Lecrae that’s the number one Christian album. It’s super-big for me.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

It’s a life lesson that translates beyond football. You can share these things with your kids: Work hard, do things the right way and you have a chance.

I am delighted to be joiningGuardian U.S.’s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. ‘Guardian U.S.’ brings the ‘Guardian’s hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it’s my chance to be Chris Rock.

‘School Daze’ was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to act on screen. I would have been happy if that had been it, because I proved that I could do it.

Bill Nunn
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Frank Gifford
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I don’t think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

Elisabeth Rohm
You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Chuck Yeager
I’ve become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don’t offer at least one course – not even required, just an elective – on the world’s religions.

My recommendation is to try and do the best you can in go-karting to be spotted by a big name like Red Bull or Ferrari. And like that you have a chance. If not, nowadays it’s very difficult. It’s always been, but these days, even more.

I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Ted Williams
The record companies don’t give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, ‘Here’s a pile of money. Go make a good record!’

Till Lindemann
Just keep taking chances and having fun.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.

I don’t write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in ‘Stiff,’ I wanted to change people’s hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks and there’s the way I like to play which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before.

What’s been nice is that I’ve been able to direct from a very idealistic place. I’ve never had to make my living as a director, which gave me a chance to choose material I feel passionate about. The directing allows me to not have to grab any acting role that comes along. I can pick and choose a little bit.

You have to be ready to pounce when a rare chance comes.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own ‘Goosebumpsattraction at Disney World; I’ve been on TV and had three TV series.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, ‘Why don’t you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?’

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans – young and old – a second chance.

George R Roberts
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It’s something that’s really stuck with me.

There’s no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Perhaps it’s the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists – people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change – who stand the best chance of penetrating life’s mysteries.

In the playoffs, it’s win or go home. You might not have a chance to look back at a game and say, ‘Man, we didn’t box out here.’

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.

In Australia, I didn’t think that there was much of a chance for me to become a singer – especially to become a K-pop star.

You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

Yingluck Shinawatra
Many of us in the jockeys’ room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

You’re doing yourself a disservice if you’re not building your roster and your team to give yourself a legitimate chance to score 21 points.

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it’s in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it’s in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can’t see a meaning in it at all.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

Ricky Nelson
I had my chance in the World Cup Final and, wow, it was the opportunity I needed to show the whole world what I was capable of.

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I’m not going to make that easy.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

If you give me the chance, I’ll destroy America for you.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It’s about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Modernity and technology are not going to mitigate the need, the reality, of face-to-face combat, and I don’t care who it is – when you put a man against a woman in hand-to-hand combat, the chance is the man is going to win… This is a physiological issue, not a culture issue.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared – a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel – I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I love playing baseball, and I always promised myself, if I had the chance, that I would work as hard as I could to be the best player I could possibly be.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

With stand-up you’ve just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

Keith Jarrett
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly – it was all still, solemn and religious.

During my time with Maccabi Tel Aviv, I learned how to play better by using my head. I was given the chance of playing a more forward position so I could score many goals. In short, I have become a player who can score goals and win games.

Eran Zahavi
I was given a chance some time ago, and it changed my life forever. I want to be able to give the same chance to the next generation of artists. There’s a new wave coming, and we are going to be a part of it.

Harness mules and oxen, but give a horse a chance to run.

Wild Bill Hickok
I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.

If you know you can do it – if you can already chart every day in your future – then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Coffee has always been a significant part of my life. For me, it’s a chance to start my day and gather my thoughts – it’s fuel for my creative process.

I feel bad for my little cousins who don’t see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won’t have a chance to see a Disney princess… who resembles them.

It’s either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain’t gonna get too far ’cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Red Skelton
Whenever I have a chance to wake up and be alive, I always thank God for that, and for me, all the rest is a bonus.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Stanislaw Lem
It’s good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you’re offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there’s a good chance it’s a book you need in your life. That’s basically how I find the books that I read.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’

The one thing I didn’t expect was to learn how much of a sense of humor Jerry Reinsdorf has. He’s really funny. I never got a chance to see his sense of humor when I was working for him or playing for him.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.

The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

When you have the chance to present yourself vocally, you realize a kind of brand develops around that vocal, and you start to see the public consciousness of you is only about one half of your brain.

I just want my hometown talking about where I’m going – like, ‘He’s killin’ it right now,’ and, ‘I’m so glad he’s doin’ well,’ and I want them to know I’ll always come back, every chance I get. I’m not one of those people who’ll just leave.

When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.

Mette Frederiksen
There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I’ve always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

From what I’ve seen of Darren Till, he’s very durable. He likes to throw that left hand so he has a chance to knock people out.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

Joel Burns
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

David J Anderson
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.

I had a positive mindset that whenever I will get the chance I will contribute to the team’s cause.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

You can’t just dream about what you want and leave things to chance. You have to get it yourself.

Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily.

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don’t need a net because you can catch yourself.

It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

George Eastman
It’s my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it’s been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I’m just one of seven members, and I’m inspired by the others all the time.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe’s? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.