Quotes About Chance

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

Were it good To set the exact wealth of all our states All at one cast? to set so rich a main On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? It were not good.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Chance created the situation

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

A wise man is out of the reach of fortune.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Luck never made a man wise.

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Wisdom triumphs over chance.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.

Be grateful to him who curses you, for he gives you a mirror to show what cursing is, also a chance to practise self-restraint; so bless him and be glad. Without exercise, power cannot come out; without the mirror, we cannot see ourselves.