Chance Quotes

Luck is being ready for the chance.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Russian proverb

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will but remember it didn't work for the rabbit!

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

J. Christopher Herold

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Vance Bourjaily

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

Persian Proverb

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Fortune favours the bold.

Terence

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance the chance will only make him ridiculous.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.

Ovid

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

Dennis E. Adonis

You're the most important person in my life," I whispered. "You're the only man I ever let in.""But I'm not in, Stace. I'm standing on the porch in the pouring rain, waiting for you to open the door. I've been waiting ever since you left after graduation, ever since you came back last year. Even now, you've let me into your bed, but not into your heart. I'm still waiting.

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you.

I'm not so stupid as to believe that you've completely forgotten about your former boyfriend. I know you think there are others here more suited for me and this life, and I wouldn't want you to rush into trying to be happy with any of this. I just... I just want to know if it's possible...

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.

Terry Pratchett

Chance favours the prepared mind.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

You're a beautiful young woman walking without an escort at one in the morning. Why doesn't one of your staff at least see you to your car?""Because they're not sexist pigs who think women are incapable of taking care of themselves."Chance rolled his eyes. "This has nothing to do with feminism. I'm all for gender equality, but the fact remains that women are targeted for more specific crimes than men, and the perpetrators of those crimes often look for circumstances such as these to attack.""See this?" Isa pulled something dark and oblong out of her purse. Chance's mouth twitched."Turbo Vag

Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it

The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous.

Anthony Liccione

…Amongst these legends of dragon hoards,Where secret, precious things are stored,There golden nugget and diamond shard,There treasure-keeper hoped to guard.As bolted doorway securely braced,hoping its treasures to ever hold,hoping beyond when time grows old,So stood the keeper in its place.A statue of unrelenting stanceStill stands victim to happenstance,For treasure-keeper did not bargainon a bit of chance and a bit of dwargen…”- Dwenzuak the dwargen

T. William Watts

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothI took the one less travled by,And that has made all the difference.As I recalled my own experience and development, I was impressed by the series of lucky accidents that determined the road I traveled.> From "Lives of the Laureates" pg.67

Milton Friedman

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

I rely on one thing in this world:my actions. I will leave nothing to chance and prefer playing the game of life with thestrongest hand possible.

Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological orientation of reality. I mean, these days, character isn't destiny any more. Economics is destiny. Ideology is destiny. Bombs are destiny. What does a famine, a gas chamber, a grenade care how you lived your life? Crisis comes, death comes, and your pathetic individual self doesn't have a thing to do with it, only to suffer the effects. This Gibreel of yours: maybe he's how history happens to you.

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

You have only one life! Take a chance, make a change, and live!

Accidents are built into the road.

You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You boy pussy but i like tom cats. Just because you got the dance, don't think you stand a fucking chance.

*You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do.

Kiki

The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling at the sheer randomness of it all. Like any survivor of chance, she feels a quick rush of thankfulness, part adrenaline and part hope.

Jennifer E. Smith

When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

Haruki Murakami

When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that's when life gives you a chance to be brave.

Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.

Take a chance on God. After all, He took a chance on you.

Susan May Warren

You could become paralyzed with worry about what might happen to your family, or if you hadn’t yet had children you could decide not to, as a sort of proactive damage control. Either way, you would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.

Nichole Bernier

If there is a one-in-a-million chance that you will "make it," then SOMEBODY has to be that ONE. It may as well be YOU! So FIGHT, WARRIOR!

Margaret Aranda

Everyone gets in life in about 3 chances in one place. But everything is about how he wise he will use this chances!

Life is the greatest chance that has been given to all of us. So how do you choose to live your life? You’ve got a pen. Write it down.

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