Quotes About Chance

Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Our country does not guarantee you success--but liberty guarantees you the opportunity to succeed.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

Success is an accident. Showing up, even if it's just for 5 minutes, makes us accident-prone.