— You’ve heard the aphorisms before: “Nothing ventured, nothing gained.” “There is no progress without action” There are two distinct concepts in the phrase “take the chance.” The first
is about living more boldly, taking action despite the risk of failure. The second is more like “seize the day”. It’s about recognizing and not letting opportunities slip between your fingers. Its about doing things when you can and doing more of what brings you happiness and fulfillment. That is the essential message of my poem captured in the poster and first on the list of best ever quotations about taking a chance, going for it, being proactive..
Best Ever Quotations on Taking the Chance
- TAKE THE CHANCE TO . . . Read – reading stretches your mind and strengthens your heart; Think – thinking yields understanding and wisdom; Learn – learning empowers and enlarges you; Dream – dreams give your imagination wings; Feel – feeling paints your hours and days in vibrant colors; Remember – memories are the museum of your past; Try– trying is the first step to every achievement; Change -change is challenge; Work – work gives you independence and fills your days with purpose; Serve – service is the surest road to personal fulfillment; Smile – smiles sprinkle sunshine wherever they land; Laugh – laughter is music that makes your troubles dance; Give – giving is the best form of getting; Love – love opens your heart and fills it with joy. – Michael Josephson
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
- Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. — Anonymous
- Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. ~James Bryant Conant
- Obstacles are not there to stop you. They are there to challenge you. If you persevere you will prevail. – Michael Josephson
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
- Your happiness and success will likely turn on whether you worry more about making mistakes or missing opportunities. Michael Josephson
- It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. K. Rowling
- Carpe diem! Seize the day!
- You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
- Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. — William Jennings Bryan
- There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle
- You can’t eat an egg until you break its shell. Proverb
- Being bold does not mean you have to be rash or reckless, it merely means you want success more than you fear failure and you are willing to take calculated risks to achieve it. – MJ
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain
- A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done” — Cardinal Newman
- Only a fool refuses to eat for fear that he will choke. Chinese Proverb
- Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. — Samuel Johnson
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” — Goethe
- You end up with what you settle for. Thelma and Louise
- A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd
- Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
- When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
- Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. — General George Patton
- Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
- If you are really careful you can avoid a lot of pain and failure but there are great risks in habitual prudence – you will never experience the greatest joys and achievements you are capable of. – Michael Josephson
- If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
- I can accept failure. Everybody fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Fear is an illusion. — Michael Jordan
- Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis Waitley
- Every man dies, but not every man really lives. Braveheart
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair
- Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. Frank Scully (often attributed to others)
- I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso
- I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. Albert Einstein
- I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
- If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
- If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Tony Robbins
- If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. — Geena Davis
- It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ~Seneca
- It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. ~Garrison Keillor
- Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them were too afraid of being laughed at. ~Author Unknown
- Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. Andre Malraux
- One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. S. Eliot
- Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor. — Anonymous
- Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ~Samuel Johnson
- The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. — William Jennings Bryan
- What a waste of life it is to be so afraid of doing something wrong that we refuse to do what it takes to live large. – Michael Josephson
- What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? — Robert Schuller
- When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres
- The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
- You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs