"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
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Quotes about Chance
Chance refers to the occurrence of events or outcomes that are unpredictable, random, or subject to uncontrollable forces or probabilities. Often associated with luck or fate, chance plays a significant role in various aspects of life, including decision-making, risk-taking, and the natural unfolding of events. The concept of chance is deeply ingrained in mathematical probability, statistics, and gaming, but also has philosophical implications, touching on questions of free will, determinism, and the nature of the universe.
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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."
Mary Tyler Moore"Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes."
Preity Zinta"Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough."
David Packard
"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
Paulo Coelho
"If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories."
Richard M. Nixon
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."
John Paul Jones"Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom."
Cat Cora
"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."
Richard Dawkins"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Stephen Leacock
"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."
Margaret J. Wheatley"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."
Robert Collier
"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."
Maxwell Maltz
"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."
Tracy Chapman"Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football."
Gary Lineker
"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."
Chuck Palahniuk"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson
"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. -Daniel Day"
Lewis"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."
Kevin Costner
"I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else."
Cyndi Lauper"Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance."
Ayrton Senna
"There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'"
Om Malik"You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right."
Louis Tomlinson"Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year impeachment fiasco based on a contrived pretext that had no chance of prevailing."
Tom Fitton
"I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly."
Sean Connery"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Chuck Yeager
"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."
Walter Scott
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