Chance Quotes

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

"Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck."

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

"Just keep taking chances and having fun."

"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

"If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances."

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."

"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."

"I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

"I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks."

"Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right."

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."

"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough."

"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."

"Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes."

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

"Care and diligence bring luck."