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I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
— Michelle Obama
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
— Thomas J. Watson
Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
— Emily Dickinson
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
— Bear Grylls
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
— Mel Brooks
I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.
— Charles B. Rangel
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Good luck has its storms.
— George Lucas
Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.
— Marilyn Ferguson
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.
— Steve Jobs
Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.
— Louie Anderson
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.
— Michael Chabon
Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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.
— Casey Stengel
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
— George S. Patton
Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
— Waylon Jennings
I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.
— El DeBarge
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
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
— Ric Ocasek
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.
— Steve Ballmer
Going into auditions, there is a wonderful butterfly feeling in your stomach - an equal balance of being utterly terrified and exhilarated that this is your chance.
— Rose Leslie
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.
— John Stuart Mill
One chance is all you need.
— Jesse Owens
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
— Larry Niven
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
— Martin Puryear
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.
— David Cone
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
— Rachel McAdams
I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
— Joel Osteen
I always say that polo, for you to pursue a career, mainly any sport, you have to be born in the right place. If you're born in Hawaii, you surf. If you're born in Austria, you probably will ski. If you're born in Argentina, you most likely ride horses and have a chance to play polo.
— Nacho Figueras
I believe in giving people a second chance.
— George Zimmer
I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
— Gillian Armstrong
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.
— Kate Middleton
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
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
— Dianne Feinstein
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
— Vernon Howard
I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
— Andrew Jackson
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.
— Narendra Modi
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
— Marcel Proust
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.
— Ayrton Senna
You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.
— John Madden
Give peace a chance.
— Yitzhak Rabin
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.
— Pierre Trudeau
The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
— Jack Ma
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
— Bruce Springsteen
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
— William Feather
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
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
— James Cash Penney
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.
— Brad Pitt
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
Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.
— Joel Burns
It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.
— Donna Lynne Champlin
I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
— Ai Weiwei
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
— Harrison Ford
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.
— Michelle Obama
I like to travel any chance I get, even if it's just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.
— Christa B. Allen
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
— Stuart Pearce
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
— Frank Sinatra
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
— Jamie Oliver
If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
— Venus Williams
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.
— Bayard Taylor
All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
— Frances O'Grady
Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.
— Henry Rollins
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
— Alexander Woollcott
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
— Mark Twain
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
— Robert Collier
I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
— Robert Redford
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
— Samuel Butler
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.
— Walter Scott
Care and diligence bring luck.
— Thomas Fuller
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
— Kevin Costner
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
— Corazon Aquino
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
— Gene Robinson
I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
— Guy Laliberte
I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it.
— Penny Pritzker
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
— Walt Mossberg
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.
— Henry Kissinger
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!
— Davy Crockett
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
— Paul Simon
'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!
— Andrew Gross
For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
— Erin McKean
The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
— Malcolm X
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
— T. E. Hulme
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
— Fritz Zwicky
It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
— Dana Perino
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
— Roger Babson
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
— Thomas Clarkson
When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.
— Gordon Ramsay
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.
— Suze Orman
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
— Sam Walton
I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
— Ken Stott
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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.
— Harvey Fierstein
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
— Anne Bradstreet
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
— Ansel Adams
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
— Emily Bronte
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
— Richard M. DeVos
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
— Ed Wood
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
— Andy Rooney
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
— Ed Markey
I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.
— Michael N. Castle
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
— Chuck Jones
The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
— Jose Mourinho
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
— Jacques Delille
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
— Frank Gifford
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
— Condoleezza Rice
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
— W. Edwards Deming
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.
— Stanley Kubrick
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
— John Boehner
I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
— Sebastian Vettel
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
— Don Rickles
In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.
— Judi Dench
Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.
— Ann Richards
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
— Gustavo Dudamel
As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.
— Slash
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
— Rachael Taylor
My whole story is just about me having a second chance.
— Two Chainz
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
— Master P
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.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.
— David Morrissey
I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.
— Emmanuel Jal
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
— Andrea Bocelli
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
— Saint Ignatius
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
— Cal Ripken, Jr.
Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
— Bonnie Bedelia
The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
— Jason Statham
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.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
— Shakira
'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?
— Alex Gibney
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
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.
— Muhammad Ali
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.
— Sam Walton
The Savior isn't our last chance He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.
— Sheri L. Dew
I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.
— Robin Wright
Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.
— Mary Quant
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.
— Joel Salatin
We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
— Billy Beane
I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.
— Mark Ruffalo
When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.
— Fabrizio Moreira
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
— Janet Yellen
I wanted to - any chance I had to dress up as a boy, like Halloween, I would be a pirate or a ghost that wore a tie. A hobo.
— Jane Lynch
I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
— Amy Purdy
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
— Lee Gutkind
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
— Chief Joseph
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.
— Julian Castro
Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
— Nhat Hanh
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.
— Eminem
The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.
— Noam Chomsky
I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.
— Blake Lively
Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
— Danny Meyer
We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time it's just that most of them are white males.
— Lesli Linka Glatter
I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.
— Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
— Brian Eno
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
— Orison Swett Marden
As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points.
— Mike Birbiglia
Voting shouldn't be a challenge. It should be as easy and accessible as possible. We shouldn't require forms of ID that folks don't have. We shouldn't restrict days or hours that allow working people a chance to both do their job and exercise their democratic right, and we damn well shouldn't be throwing up new obstacles midstream.
— Donna Brazile
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained.
— Helen Fisher
When you're the host of the Academy Awards, and you grew up watching Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, and now it's your turn, and you get a chance to run with the baton on the relay for a while, I really embraced it and just really loved being there.
— Billy Crystal
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
— Doris Lessing
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
— Philip Gibbs
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
— Alex Steffen
I'd love to make a movie with Tom Hardy. If we ever got the chance to make a Venom movie together, that would be super-cool, but his movie would have to take place in the MCU because I'm not giving up my ticket in the MCU.
— Tom Holland
I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
— Chad Smith
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
— Muhammad Yunus
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.
— Dwyane Wade
It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
— Richard Pryor
You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.
— Earl Weaver
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.
— Constantine Karamanlis
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
— Ralph Marston
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
— Kent Nerburn
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.
— Amber Heard
With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use on the court. It's fun, and I don't take myself too seriously. I have good broadcast teams with me, but I'm not a huge stats guy. I think they post the numbers too quickly, and I'd rather let the match play out a bit first.
— John McEnroe
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
— Hugh Hefner
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.
— Tiger Woods
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral.
— Leland Ryken
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.
— Gail Sheehy
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.
— Aldous Huxley
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
— King George V
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
— William Dunbar
'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.
— Chance The Rapper
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.
— Dave Brubeck
I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.
— Cher
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
— Paula Cole
Over the years, I've come to recognize that democratization in Ethiopia is not just a matter of choice. It's a matter of national survival. I am deeply convinced that we either democratize and have a good chance of surviving, or if we fail to do so, we disintegrate.
— Meles Zenawi
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
— Chris Hadfield
If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
— Ada Yonath
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.
— Hunter S. Thompson
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
— J. C. Watts
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.
— Lester Holt
I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.
— Robert Griffin III
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.
— H. G. Wells
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
— Richard Burton
'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.
— Essie Davis
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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.
— Lou Holtz
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
— Larry Fitzgerald
Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.
— James Altucher
I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
— CeeLo Green
The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
— Susanna Moore
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
— Alexander the Great
If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
— Rakul Preet Singh
I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.
— Werner Herzog
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
— Jean Cocteau
God's dice always have a lucky roll.
— Sophocles
I am a free spirit. I am very impulsive. I put the most trust in people chance after chance, regardless of how they treat me.
— Sasha Lane
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
— Plutarch
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
— Bernie Mac
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
— Earl Blumenauer
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.
— Glenn Hoddle
It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.
— John Rowland
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
— Rob James-Collier
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
I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.
— Chris Hadfield
If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.
— Trent Franks
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed. 
— Michelle Obama
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
— Michael Jordan
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
— Roger Maris
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.
— Richard Dawkins
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.
— Peter Diamandis
Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.
— Charlie Day
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
— Xenophanes
This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
— Steven Gerrard
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
— Marc Bolan
I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
— Hillary Clinton
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.
— Neil Patrick Harris
You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.
— Larry Wilmore
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
— Anatole France
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
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
— Fred Brooks
Events are not a matter of chance.
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
— Lena Headey
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
— Gerhard Richter
If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.
— Marjane Satrapi
To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
— Ariana Grande
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.
— Muhammad Yunus
Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
— Common
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
— Louis Tomlinson
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
— Cynthia Ozick
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
— Nick Nolte
This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.
— John Burnside
I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.
— Chris Benz
In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance.
— Shinzo Abe
I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.
— Jordan Spieth
You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.
— Future
It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.
— Ryan Lochte
Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
— Orlando Bloom
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
— Paul Watson
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
— Henri Poincare
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
— Jacques Derrida
When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
— Daniel Barenboim
I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
— Billie Jean King
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.
— Tracy Chapman
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
— Dave Thomas
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.
— Orison Swett Marden
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
— Samuel Johnson
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
— Denis Leary
It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.
— Shania Twain
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
— Ronald Reagan
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.
— Simone Weil
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
— Euripides
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
— Arnold Palmer
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
— Luis Bunuel
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