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Quotes About Chance

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.
~ Arian Foster
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
~ John Heywood
Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.
~ Mike Caro
In life we get an opportunity to do some cool things, and some things that are fun and that we like doing.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.
~ Bethenny Frankel
Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.
~ Barack Obama
My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
~ Sam Kinison
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
~ Virginia Woolf
But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue
~ W. H. Auden
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
~ Jacques Derrida
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
~ Fanny Fern
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
~ Paulo Coelho
All of life is a wager
~ Christopher Hitchens
Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.
~ Douglas Adams
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
~ Euripides
If the shoe fits you're lucky.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
~ Nora Roberts, The Pagan Stone
In this life, anything can happen - and what can help bring it to pass is Hope
~ Claude M. Bristol
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.
~ Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber