Quotes About Chance

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

It [success] is really by mistake.

You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

fortuna, señor conde?

Digo que el amor es una lotería en la que el que gana, gana la muerte. Sois muy afortunado por haber perdido, creedme, mi querido D'Artagnan. Y si tengo algún consejo que daros, es perder siempre.

No war material has ever made that much difference.' 'No? I cite the fission bomb of 1945. I cite the Null-G anti-gravity installations of 2022. Talley's All-Field Radar Trip-Screen of 2194. Material can often make the difference, especially when there's the chance of the enemy getting it first.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

odds don't matter. The natural world defies statistics.

In the last few months, she'd had a lot of time to consider the state of mankind, and she'd decided that people actually had very few choices in their lives. Most things happened to you. Most things rolled right over you and then kept on going.

But then you like to tempt fate, don't you? Don't worry, it will all work out

But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun.