Quotes About Chance

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Know that whatever experience ye have in the material sojourns for a purpose. Know that it is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present. For know that all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon spiritual things.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

But instead I mounted a little in life, And I owe it all to a book I read. But why did I go to Mason City, Where I chanced to see the book in a window, With its garish cover luring my eye? And why did my soul respond to the book, As I read it over and over?

Destiny knows no favorites.

Suerte, casualidad, inteligencia, buenas decisiones. O todo lo contrario. Y el resto de nuestra vida de un lado o del otro. A veces el fútbol se parece tanto a la vida que da miedo.

La suerte del chico depende de la chica.

Well, hell, use a ball bat. And strike first, from behind. Don't give him a chance to take it away from you. You don't want a fight, you want revenge." He grinned a little. "When you just want a fight you can always go home to your wife.

Seventeenth-century thinkers rejected the Greek's distinction between truths that have to be - two and two make four - and truths that happen to be - gold is soft and easy to scratch. Since every facet of the universe reflected a choice made by God, chance had no role in the universe. The world was rational and orderly. "It just so happens" was impossible.

Today we were unlucky. But remember, we have only to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

You've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

If you have a lane, you have a chance.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.

Now is the accepted time.

Observe the opportunity.

Luck runs out but safety is good for life.

Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck.