Quotes About Chance

Nothing good happens accidentally.

Fate has no scruples.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come?

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it?

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Order is indeed the dream of man, but chaos, which is only another word for dumb, blind, witless chance, is still the law of nature.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive.

Whatever truth you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by holding your breath and taking precautions.

Das Leben ist zu kostbar um es dem Zufall zu überlassen. - Deus X. Machina

Life is too precious to be left to chance

I had dispensed with a rudder on the principal that fate must be given a chance.

There are times in your life when things line up and Fate takes a hand in your future," Ptolemy remembered Coydog saying. "When that happens, you got to move quick and take advantage of the sitchiation or you'll never know what might have been." "How do I know when it's time to move quick?" L'il Pea asked. "When somethin' big happens and then somethin' else come up.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health or you don't, luck vies with misfortune, you break down and arrive at Bellevue in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning or - what was his father's antique phrase - you pulled up your socks and got on with things. Your heart adapted to changing times. Your body did. Or it did not and you passed your days in a muffler of regret. And that was what they called intelligent design.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Most Gamblers start with a little, and strive to turn it into a lot : Invariably they end up turning a lot into a little

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take