Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Like: 'Don't walk out there with one hand in your pocket unless there's somethin' in there you're going to bring out.' You gotta commit. You've gotta go out there and improvise and you've gotta be completely unafraid to die. You've got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time.
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.
Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.
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