Chance Quotes

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

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.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

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

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

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

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

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

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

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

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

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.

Living is risking.

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.