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

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.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

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

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

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

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

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

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

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.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

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!

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

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

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

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

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

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.

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.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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

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

Taking risks gives me energy.

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

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Living is risking.

I love taking chances.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

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

If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

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.

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 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.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

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.