Quotes About Chance

If you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

She had always reckoned herself such a gambler. No more audacious woman in the Union. Now she realised the games had always been rigged in her favour. She never had to gamble with her life before, and the stakes had risen suddenly far too high for her taste.

I've never believed in luck. If you perform well, execute, have a good race car and a good race team, you're going to increase your chances dramatically of having better results.

In any random slaughter, the difference between living and dying rarely has anything to do with willpower, or wisdom, or pluck. It's just a matter of where you're standing. Two inches to the right, and the bus hits you. If your office is on the ninety-second floor instead of the ninetieth, you don't make it out in time.

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Despite his foreign policy successes, few gave Truman a chance of being reelected. The president went into his White House run deeply unpopular.

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?

Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in? I'll never know. -

There are people who believe a photo captures your soul. For them, this is a terrible thing. For me, it's one last chance.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

There's no such thing as chance;And what to us seems merest accidentSprings from the deepest source of destiny.

It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.

He who seizes the right moment is the right man.

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

One lives but once in the world.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life is a rotten lottery.

Everyone gets lucky for some amount in their life. And the question is, are you alert enough to know you're being lucky or you're becoming lucky?

I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.