Quotes About Chance

The choices we make are branches in the tree of possibility.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.

If you have a chance at real happiness, whatever the cost, you have to take it.

fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie.

Fate needs accomplices

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

I had to go out and give my team a chance. I didn't want to be remembered as the guy blowing the World Series.

I really love Philadelphia and all of the fans, my teammates, the front office, the organization, everybody. I know I'm going to miss them. I really appreciate everything we did together. On the other side, I am happy because I have a chance to go to the playoffs. Another opportunity, maybe, to go to the World Series.

It's like I say all the time, it's the heavyweight division. It doesn't matter if the guys a black belt or if he's a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.

We went with the wrong attitude to America, too successful with a too big attitude. We were not really knowing how grateful we should be just to have the chance to even lip-sync a record and be exposed to five billion people worldwide.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

If you are good on the pitch, good in training, you will have your chance. I'm not worried about my place.

President-elect Trump wasn't my choice, but I'm going to be like Dave Chappelle, and I'm going to give him a chance - but I think there are people out there with legitimate worries.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table.

I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.

In every operation, there's a risk, and you don't know whether it's gonna... you know, obviously there's that 95% chance, whatever they say, they can never say 100% you're gonna be better. But the concern and the worry is the worst thing.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.