Quotes About Chance

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, "Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

Certainly I believe in luck. How else do you explain the success of those you don't like?

This is not a dress rehearsal. This is It.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

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

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

Now or never was the time.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

He was obsessed with the fear of making a mistake. Sometimes he was convinced it was impossible to do anything else, and that if anyone got anything right it was purely by chance.