Quotes About Chance

Get as much experience as you can, so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

The long arm of coincidence.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Fortune favors the audacious.

Deliberation often loses a good chance.

Every dog must have his day.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

There is no chance for old fools.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.