Chance Quotes

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

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.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.