Taking Chances Quotes

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes.
If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
- John Sculley

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw

One can not love without opening oneself,
and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering.
One does not have control.
- Isabelle Adjani

I Act with Bold Courage -
Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future,
I boldly set sail with courage and intent.
I hold my course with focused attention and relentless commitment,
as I weather the storms of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances
with children and young people in the church.
The Holy Father himself said...
there is no room in the priesthood or religious life
for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.
- Roger Mahony

Personal importance, or taking things personally,
is the maximum expression of selfishness
because we make the assumption that everything is about me.
- don Miguel Ruiz

These are the keys to a great life...
taking oneself lightly, forgiveness, and acceptance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it,
not because you're expecting a reward
- don Miguel Ruiz

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

An overfull calendar, like an overfull stomach,
is a consequence of taking on too much.
Commit, and eat, in moderation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Self-care is critical to having a strong inner foundation.
Taking good care of YOU means the people in your life
will receive the best of you rather than what is left of you.
- Lorraine Cohen

Every day is a day to take action.
Whatever your choices, take action on those choices.
Taking no action is equally a choice,
just not a choice made from awareness.
Make conscious choices,
and take action on those choices - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every day is a new day -
a day for new beginnings, new dreams, new action -
a day for challenge, adventure, and discovery.
TODAY, what is your goal?
What is your dream?
What action are you taking to further your goals and dreams?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Taking inspiration from the powerful vision of my future,
I boldly set sail with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
- Billie Jean King

Once you have seen the truth
you must make the decision to let go
of the pain, anger, and resentment you have been holding on to.
This requires you to take action.
If you are attached to your pain, resentment,
and self-righteousness, and addicted to your emotional reactions,
this will be a difficult step for you.
Taking action requires letting go of the very thing
you have been holding on to for so many years.
There is comfort in what we find familiar,
even if we are experiencing pain and suffering.
The pain and suffering itself becomes the familiarity we seek.
It takes absolute faith in yourself
plus courage, will, and discipline to let go.
But once you let go, it will be as if
the weight of the world has been taken off your shoulders.
In this process it is important to forgive
not just the others in our lives, but also ourselves.
For most people, giving ourselves
the gift of forgiveness is very challenging.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
- Leo Tolstoy

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
- Fred Woodworth

Success is often the result of taking
a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
- Adam Sandler

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones -
the ones at home.
- Mother Teresa

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes

There is something about a rainbow
that just can't be ignored.
Whether spectacle of nature or covenant,
no two rainbows are ever the same,
and each one is always breath-taking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do not want to foresee the future.
I am concerned with taking care of the present.
God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
- Amy Heckerling

True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- Joan Jett

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.
- Elihu Root

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
- Norman O. Brown

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
- Elvis Presley

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
- Edward G. Robinson

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
- Stanislav Grof

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
- John Pople

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
- Donna Tartt

I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and, at 11, began taking acting classes privately.
- Jeffrey Tambor

Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am.
- Cheryl Tiegs

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.
- Honor Blackman

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
- Agnes de Mille

I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.
- Michael Irvin

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
- Bob Graham

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
- Knute Rockne

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.
- Neil Patrick Harris

I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time.
- Ben Jackson

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
- Olivia Wilde

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.
- Elton John

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
- David Borenstein

The buying of time or space is not the taking out of a hunting license on someone else's private preserve but is the renting of a stage on which we may perform.
- Howard Luck Gossage

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
- Fay Godwin

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
- John Henry Carver

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
- Marcia Gay Harden

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
- Bill McCartney

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Mary Oliver

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
- Honore de Balzac

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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