Quotes About Chance

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Man proposes, God disposes.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

No man ever became wise by chance.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.