Everything Quotes

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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.

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

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

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

To be successful, one must take chances.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

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

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.

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

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.

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.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

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.

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.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

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.

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

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.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

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.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

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.

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

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.

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.

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

God has given me a second chance and I'm not going to waste it.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.