Bet Quotes

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. (André Malraux)
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. View quote
Boris Johnson
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. View quote
Christopher Isherwood
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. View quote
Bill Watterson
Drugs are a bet with your mind. View quote
Jim Morrison
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. View quote
Groucho Marx
I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. View quote
Jane Wagner
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. (Tom Stoppard)
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked. View quote
Elon Musk
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset. View quote
Leonard Maltin
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. View quote
Omar Epps
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing-a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand. View quote
George Smoot
Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope? View quote
Richard Rorty
Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top. (Paul Robeson)
It's better to bet on this life than on the next. View quote
Albert Camus
Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet. View quote
Paul Newman
Drugs are a bet with your mind.” "It's like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice. View quote
Jim Morrison
Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet. View quote
Richard Dawkins