Chance Quotes

"If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction."

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."

"My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed."

"People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it."

"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"

"I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few."

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."

"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

"The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks."

"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance."

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

"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."

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish."

"Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream."

"Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people."

"I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things - then she should not give the guy a chance as she's wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives."

"I wish a person with a record of competence such as Nitish Kumar would get a chance to lead India."

"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

"Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance."

"The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss."

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

"Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself."

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."

"All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity."

"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."

"As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?"

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."

"I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal."

"If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs."

"If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person."

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."

"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."