Quotes About Chance

Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining strands of fate wove both of them together: your own existence and the things that happen to you.

Either a universe with order and purpose or a medley thrown together by chance, but that too has order. Or can there be order of a kind in your inner world, but no order in the Whole, especially as all things are distinguished from one another, yet intermingle, and respond to each other?

Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence.

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.

He could say, it is true, 'either there is a God, and then all is well; or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.

Epictetus nicely likened this process to gaming: "The counters are indifferent and the dice are indifferent: how do I know which way they will fall? But to use the throw carefully and skillfully, that is my job.

either there is a God, and then all is well; or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.

self-reliance and an unequivocal determination not to leave anything to chance;

The goddess Fortune is mad, blind, and stupid, some philosophers maintain. They declare that she stands upon a revolving globe of stone; whither Chance impels this stone, thither, they say, does Fortune fall. She is blind, they repeat, for that she fails wholly to perceive whereto she attaches herself. Moreover they declare that she is mad because she is cruel, uncertain, and inconstant; stupid because she knows not how to tell worthy from unworthy.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

The Wheel of Fortune rotates, fickle as the moon. Soon those who were down will move upwards. And vice versa, of course

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning

Sauve qui peut. To survive we'd all turn thief and rascal, or so says the fox, with her coat of an elegant scoundrel, her white knife of a smile, who knows just where she's going: to steal something that doesn't belong to her - some chicken, or one more chance, or other life.

We cannot unweave, and remake. For chance and choice happen. They coincide, they coalesce, they mix, and then their joint outcome grows as hard and as fixed as cement. Like a fossil in stone, it hardens, in its own indissoluble, immutable shape.

Thomas," I said, coming forward to greet him. "How fortuitous that you should come to see me now!

If! If! If There were so many ifs in life, never any certainty of anything, never any security...

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.