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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

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

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

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

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

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

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.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

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

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

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

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.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

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 love taking chances.

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.

Living is risking.

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.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space.

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

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

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

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

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

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.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Taking risks gives me energy.

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

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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

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.

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.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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.

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

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

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

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.

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.

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

To be successful, one must take chances.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

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.

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.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

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.

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.