Life is an unpredictable journey filled with moments that challenge us to step out of our comfort zones and embrace the unknown. Taking chances can be daunting, yet it is often in these moments of risk that we discover our true potential and uncover opportunities that can transform our lives. Whether you're standing at the precipice of a new career path, considering a bold move to a different city, or simply yearning for a fresh perspective, embracing the spirit of adventurousness can lead to remarkable change. In this collection of 35 inspiring quotes, you'll find the motivation you need to take that first step toward the extraordinary, helping you envision the possibilities that lie just beyond the horizon.
1. “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” - Tom Stoppard
2. “if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.” - Julia Sorel
3. “You did respond—your response was the worst kind—you did nothing.” - Emily Franklin
4. “There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.” - Balthasar Gracian
5. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” - Oprah Winfrey
6. “For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.” - S. Jane Sloat
7. “The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.” - Laurence Peter
8. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” - Mae West
9. “I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees.... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life?” - Richard Russo
10. “In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!” - C. JoyBell C.
11. “Hope attracts chances.” - Toba Beta
12. “Chances don't approach you,it's you who approach chances.” - Toba Beta
13. “I don't buy idea of second chance.With hope we make a lot of chances.” - Toba Beta
14. “I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot.” - Toba Beta
15. “All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.” - Megan Chance
16. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” - Criss Jami
17. “It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.” - Kirstie Alley
18. “And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, WERE life.” - Veronica Rossi
19. “Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.” - Aidan Chambers
20. “You get that one chance; and damn it, you’ve got to take it! If there’s one lesson I know I will take with me for eternity, its that there are those things that might happen only once, those chances that come walking down the street, strolling out of a café; if you don’t let go and take them, they really could get away! We can get so washed out with a mindset of entitlement– the universe will do everything for us to ensure our happiness– that we forget why we came here! We came here to grab, to take, to give, to have! Not to wait! Nobody came here to wait! So, what makes anyone think that destiny will keep on knocking over and over again? It could, but what if it doesn’t? You go and you take the chance that you get; even if it makes you look stupid, insane, or whorish! Because it just might not come back again. You could wait a lifetime to see if it will...but I don’t think you should.” - C. JoyBell C.
21. “It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?” - Idries Shah
22. “ففي المواقف التفصيلية من حياة الأفراد و الأمم يكون للإنسان فرصة واحدة لا ثاني لها لأن "يكون أو لا يكون” - عيد الناصر
23. “Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.” - Shannon L. Alder
24. “[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path, a happier or better or just a different path. Just because they're in the past doesn't mean you can't treasure the possibilities ... maybe we put down a marker for another time. And now's the time. Now we can do whatever we want to do.” - James Robertson
25. “In life we have to size up the chances and calculate the possible risks and our ability to deal with them and then make our plans accordingly.” - Freya North
26. “You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.” - D.D. Barant
27. “Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.” - Oprah Winfrey
28. “Don't get me wrong I'd never say never'Cause though love can change the weatherNo act of God can pull me away from you” - Five for Fighting
29. “For Time calls only once, and that determines all.” - Sophocles
30. “In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and we always seem to end up right back where we started.” - Rebecah McManus
31. “When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.” - Lauren Oliver
33. “Time is your only enemy, it disappears very quickly and never gives you a second chance.” - Steve Douglas
34. “Nothin'. Nothin' at all. But there are a lot of folk out there who can't just be themselves right away. Some people have a lot of scars they carry around and it takes a while for them to be willing to make themselves vulnerable again. You," she paused, giving weight to her next words, "don't give those people a chance.” - D.H. Starr
35. “Divorce is the start point for a brand new life. Don't lose the chance to redesign it upon your dreams!” - Rossana Condoleo
