Quotes About Chance

If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift, and a new chance to try again.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

If I've got a swing, I've got a shot.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

It's never too late while you're breathing.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we got.

The straight warp of necessity, not to be swerved from its ultimate course— its every alternating vibration, indeed, only tending to that; free will still free to ply her shuttle between given threads; and chance, though restrained in its play within the right lines of necessity, and sideways in its motions directed by free will, though thus prescribed to by both, chance by turns rules either, and has the last featuring blow at events.

the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.

Though public libraries have an imposing air, and doubtless contain invaluable volumes, yet, somehow, the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound in much.

Life is governed by chance, not wisdom.

Cada ballenera lleva un buen número de cartas para varias naves: entregarlas a los destinatarios depende del mero azar de encontrarlos en los cuatro océanos. Así, muchas cartas nunca llegan a destino, y otras sólo son recibidas cuando ya han cumplido dos o tres años.

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And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it's born with us the day that we are born.

Even a blind pig finds an acorn now and then.

Everybody has the same chance but you need to be rich...

That would require faith. I do not beliebe in faith. I believe it exists but I do not believe it works. I don't know what the rules are here; I can't risk throwing everything away on a long shot.

something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.

If one could be right every hand, none of us would be here,' he said philosophically.

Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.

at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action