Steve Winwood Quotes

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

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

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Entrepreneurs are motivated by independence as well as challenge, knowing they are ultimately responsible for themselves. Monetary success is certainly helpful, but it often becomes more of a score card than anything else.

The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

I believe 0% is luck. I think you create your own luck, so I don't believe in luck.

I think it is astounding that people could argue for "you just must trust someone else to fix it" instead of "you could fix it yourself, or hire someone to fix it." There is a contractor base out there that can solve these problems as well as or better than the major vendors could. But I think the major vendors are still having more luck at getting the ear of the press.

There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it's circumstantial.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.