To be successful, one must take chances.
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren’t making some mistakes, you aren’t taking enough chances.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you’re willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it’s mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that’s what matters.
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.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you’re going to take. I’m always for the one that’s challenging.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
God’s dice always have a lucky roll.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I’m taking more chances; I’m bold and proud.
I don’t believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
I’m the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it’s starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
