Top 110 Stakes Quotes

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

Thing is, I’m a funny actor, but I’m not good at being funny. I’m going to ramble for a second: I’m an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It’s black and white. It’s win or lose.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

I was a huge ‘Breaking Bad’ fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time – the stakes feel really high.

Indie movies can be a lot more stressful than studio pictures. The stakes are just as high whether you’re talking $3 million or $40 million.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

I personally went canvassing door to door in a local race when I was in high school and thought it was kind of hilarious how worked up people got over such small stakes elections.

You know, parenting is so personal. And we’re all afraid that we didn’t quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we – what if we made a mistake?

The stakes in the encryption debate are high, with significant consequences for personal privacy, the U.S. private sector, and our national security.

Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters – that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that’s tremendously freeing. If it doesn’t matter much, the stakes are lower and you can’t really fail. It’s insurrection. It’s a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

‘High Stakes’ was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don’t pay tax.

In Bombay people know me as a Rituparno Ghosh actor but Calcutta gives me the comfort zone and that’s why I love shooting here. In Bombay, the money is bigger, the stakes are bigger.

Big stories need human stakes.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves. But now we’re in a position where we’re being targeted, and the stakes are just too high.

Everybody who’s been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don’t know it’s that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

As we know all too well, our early years are formative in ways it can takes us a lifetime to grasp. Those years leave deep marks; in that way, the stakes of childhood are inherently very high.

I’ve found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

I guess I’m attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it’s why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm – not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president’s nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

The world’s attention is increasingly focused on climate change. It threatens our economy, our environment and ultimately our families’ health and livelihoods. For coastal states like Oregon, the stakes are even higher.

Deep-stack games like High Stakes Poker are the favorites among both poker pros and avid fans of televised poker. In these games, the most talented players shine and the most exciting action takes place.

It doesn’t work if the bad guys kill his mother’s uncle’s friend’s neighbor’s pet dog. You’ve got to make the stakes high.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

What would you have if you didn’t have a murder in a mystery? You’d have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there’s nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It’s the ultimate stakes.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren’t very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it’s about stock options.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

The stakes are high in politics.

I think the stakes are always high when you’re an artist of color – to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they’re able to be present while pitching their ideas. It’s about maintaining presence during big challenges – very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they’re entrepreneurs or not.

Obviously, the competition at an Olympics, the emotions are running high, and the stakes are higher for these athletes, so it does bring an incredible, palpable excitement and emotion into the building.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It’s hard in the sense that it’s very uncertain.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.