Chance Quotes

"Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women."

"To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky."

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

"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."

"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

"You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!"

"The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences."

"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."

"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."

"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."

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

"Remarkably successful people habitually do what other people won't do. They go where others won't go because there's a lot less competition and a much greater chance for success."

"Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success."

"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."

"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."

"When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers."

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

"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."

"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."

"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life."

"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."

"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"Every day I look as a chance to get better and I try to get better for the next day."

"Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance."

"My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights."

"Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance."

"While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President... like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?"

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."

"I've watched my family grow, I've traveled around the world and I've had a chance to contribute some, I think."

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."

"The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you."

"Paid sick leave is a public health necessity. Not only does it allow employees to seek medical care promptly and appropriately, it reduces the chance of spreading infectious diseases to others and enables caregivers to provide for their loved ones."

"If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation."

"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet."

"It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."

"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

"An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing."