Chance Quotes

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

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

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

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.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Good luck has its storms.

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.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

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.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

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.