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Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.
Sep 10, 2025
Can’t take a chance that one day, in one spot, somewhere, an exit might appear. We can’t give up. Ever.
It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.
Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.
There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it
I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.
It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you just to live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm telling you to live in it. Try and get it. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. Seize the moment.
In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.
I like when people take chances.
When we are on tour we also take chances.
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
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.
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
To be successful, one must take chances.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Envision possibility. Don't worry who else believes in it; the universe is only looking for instructions from you.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.
The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.
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.
One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.
One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.
I was playing heavy metal when I was 18. I had to evolve out of that into an alternative consciousness about what it meant to change the way I played guitar, and the kind of songs, and the subject matter, and singing about child abuse, and all this stuff. I had to come from somewhere, and I had to take chances to do that.
Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers.
Take a chance! All life is a chance
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.