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Quotes About Chance

Why would I want to take a chance on being hurt agan?" She asked. "Because you're not over me," he said. "Any more than I'm over you.
~ Georgia Bockoven
What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct, which I may never get to do again.
~ Georgina Chapman
When my supply of success at this egotistic autonomy ran out, I became depressed. And with the depression, by means of grace, came a chance for spiritual openness. I
~ Gerald G. May
Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
~ Gerald Vizenor
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
~ William James
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
~ Eric Hoffer
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
~ Goethe
Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.
~ Czech Proverb
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. ... If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.
~ Albert E. Dunning
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
~ Thomas Mann
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
~ Albert Camus
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
~ Publilius Syrus
Know thine opportunity.
~ Pittacus
Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~ Ovid
The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.
~ Senegalese Proverb
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.
~ Roger Babson
Opportunity knocks but once.
~ Anonymous
If Fortune calls, offer him a seat.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.
~ Channing Pollock