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Quotes About Chance

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
~ Sebastien Chamfort
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
~ William Shakespeare
Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.
~ Anonymous
In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.
~ James Jones
There are so many people with all kinds of lucky things happening to them, and they don't know how to use it.
~ Rocky Aoki
Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.
~ Joan Ganz Cooney
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
~ Ruth Gordon
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
~ Thomas Fuller
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
~ B. C. Forbes
Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
~ Anonymous
Chance works for us when we are good captains.
~ George Meredith
Motivation triggers luck.
~ Mike Wallace
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
~ Christy Mathewson
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
~ Euripides
It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it.
~ Publilius Syrus
Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!
~ Arab proverb
What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.
~ Dale Carnegie
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
~ Neil Simon
To be alive at all involves some risk.
~ Harold MacMillan
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
~ Andre Maurois
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
~ Michael Curtiz