Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

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.

If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

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

If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.

I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

I had expected to be playing in the reserves and, all going well, that I might get a chance in the first team towards the end of the season. But it has all happened much faster than I could ever have thought.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.

I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put this small group under certain conditions and influences, interpreted by another group of actors or by real professional performers, like a magician, a psychic, a model, a hypnotist, a singer, a psycho-dramaturge.

I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.