Chance Quotes

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

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

"I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not."

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran."

"As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn't stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful... but so frightening."

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

"Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes."

"I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear."

"At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"God's dice always have a lucky roll."

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

"Here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wanted for themselves. Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams will finally come to pass."

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

"There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere."

"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."

"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win."

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

"I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often."

"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love."

"We need somebody to give us a chance."

"In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game."

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

"But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along."

"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."

"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win."

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

"There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?"

"One chance is all you need."

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

"To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance."

"Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance."

"Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance."

"The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over."

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

"The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."

"I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances."

"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."

"Post-Brexit, we got a chance to start all over again with a president in Trump, who is Anglophile. He is pro-British. He knows the things we've shared together over the years - the good and the bad."