Quotes About Chance

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.

I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

Know thy opportunity.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

I see a lot of fog and a few lights. I like it when life's hidden. It gives you a chance to imagine nice things, nicer than they are.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.