Luck vs Risk

The dance of chance and choice

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably deal with.

Risk is what's left over when you think you've thought of everything.

Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. The best things in life are born from coincidence.

Luck is an open door. Chance is the willingness to step through. This creates the illusion that certain people are luckier.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared. What we call chance is the meeting of preparation with possibility.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

What appears as luck to the observer is often the visible tip of an iceberg of preparation and positioning.

Risk is the price of admission to anything worthwhile. The only true security in life comes from knowing how to live with insecurity.

The line between bravery and foolishness is drawn by outcomes, but both require the same initial courage.

Chance favors only the prepared mind, but preparation without opportunity is like a key without a lock.

We overestimate the role of luck in others' successes and underestimate it in our own failures.

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings, balancing the certain with the uncertain.

Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well - what goes down must come up, and vice versa.