65 Incredible Quotes About Taking Chances

These incredible quotes about taking chances will really make you think about how you’re living life, and how much you are pushing yourself to live the life of your dreams!

As these sayings and phrases say, when you stay in your comfort zone, nothing much grows. Use these taking chances quotes to take risks that move you in the direction of your dreams!

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Quotes About Taking Chances

1. “The great thing about taking big chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.” – Amy Poehler

2. “The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.” – Debbi Fields

3. “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.” – Albert Einstein

4. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

5. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” – Brian Tracy

6. “Don’t let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it’s no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.” – Ken Shamrock

7. “Fear stops us from making the leap, taking the chance, reaching out, and trusting ourselves.” – Jeanne Boschert

8. “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.” – Theodore Roosevelt

9. “I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen.” – Kevin Costner

10. “Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” – Dale Carnegie

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11. “Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.” – Cameron Diaz

12. “Necessity is the mother of taking chances.” – Mark Twain

13. “There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.” – Drew Barrymore.

14. “Never regret taking a chance, even if you fall on your face. It’s better to know you tried and failed than to wonder about the great what if? – Devin Frye

15. “Don’t be someone who ends up with regrets because you didn’t follow your dreams. Take that chance, take that risk it will be a memory that will be with you for your life.” – Catherine Pulsifer

16. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore

17. “Because if you’re prepared and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.”– Mark Cuban

18. “It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.” –  Nicholas Sparks

19. “Dare to take chances, follow your dreams, risk it all, fall in love, believe in yourself, ask questions, let go, make mistakes, start over, speak the truth, take responsibility, find happiness, live for today.” – Unknown

20. “You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.” – John Legend

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21. “Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”– Frederick Wilcox

22. “Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.” – Danny Wallace

23. “We all need to decide whether to ‘play it safe’ in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making?” – Charlie Badenhop

24. “What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.” – Peter Drucker

25. “The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.” – Goethe

26. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” – Unknown

27. “If you have made mistakes. . . there is always another chance for you. . . you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘Failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford

28. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

29. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot

30. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” –  Brian Tracy

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31. “Dare to fail. Dare to be different.” – Mark Batterson

32. “I started out with Buzz Sawyer in Sacramento. He had me shoot on guys and beat them up. They tossed me a few bones here and there. But, after Buzz passed away, I started seeking training elsewhere.” – Ken Shamrock

33. “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.” – Gisele Bundchen

34. “You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.” – Earl Nightingale

35. “Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.” – Billie Armstrong

36. “The only chance that we have of achieving our dreams is to take a risk, and most people who are consumed with negative self-talk do not find the risk to be worth it.” – Jennifer Smith

37. “From early on in my career, I was always challenged to create things. Early in my career, I created ‘ground and pound.’ When I fought Royce Grace the second time, I developed that: stay on guard, follow the hips, press the legs down, and press the hips down. When he rested, I ground and pounded him.” –  Ken Shamrock

38. “Don’t be afraid to try something…It never hurts as bad as you think to fail. You seldom regret what you do…You regret what you didn’t do. Don’t try to be invulnerable…Don’t worry too much about security….If you build a wall around yourself, you become a prisoner of that wall. Take a chance!” – Hugh Downs, ‘Register And Tribune Syndicate

39. “If you know you can do it and 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.” – Gina Barreca

40. “We all need to decide whether to “play it safe” in life and worry about the downside, or instead take a chance, by being who we really are and living the life our heart desires. Which choice are you making.” – Charlie Badenhop

41. “Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter

42. “Be passionate about your life. Learn to live without the fear of failing. Take a chance, you just might surprise yourself.” – Nishan Panwar

43. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves.” – Andre Gide

44. “The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it’s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it’s mountaineering; it’s wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don’t manage it.” –  Paulo Coelho

45. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard

46. “You have to make the most of the chances that come your way.”- Spanish Proverb

47. “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – General George Patton

48. “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

49. “Danger can never be overcome without taking risks.” – Latin Proverb

50. “I’d rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.”- Lucille Ball

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51. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin

52. “Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.” – Wilferd Peterson

53. “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “Sometimes quitting does not imply one’s weakness. It sometimes shows one’s strength for being brave enough to put an end to the things he once thought he could not do.”- Kriza Mae G. Abia

55. “Sometimes you just have to have faith and take a Chance…even when your heart is shaking! Have Faith in the blessings that God has planned for you!” – Nishan Panwar

56. “Even though enthusiastic commitment may carry with it the risk of being wrong, still only those who take the chance will ever attain complete creativity. The committed person, win or lose, is the one who finds the real excitement in living.”- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

57. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

58. “You’ve got to take your chances in life, don’t ignore the opportunities when they crop up as you don’t get that many. Every little helps, the small victories are important because that’s your lot.”- John King

59. “The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.” – Demi Moore

60. “Basically, a second chance is a “do-over,” an opportunity to make an additional effort at accomplishing something or reaching a goal after you’ve failed at least once.” – Robert Moskowitz

61. “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” – Geena Davis

62. “99 percent of success is built on failure.”- Charles Kettering

63. “There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I’ve never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it’s terrific and sometimes it’s not.”- Christopher Walken

64. “Never regret taking a chance, even if you fall on your face; It’s better to know you tried and failed than to wonder the great “what if?”. – Devin Frye

65. “What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert Schuller

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