Quotes About Chance

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

There is a tide in the affairs of men

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Shallow men believe in luck.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

A real man makes his own luck.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

if you are still tied to reality by family or by some kind of regularizing influence in your day-to-day life, like having a job, then you've got a fighting chance.

A life lived by choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived by chance is a life of unconscious reaction.

Nothing happens by chance. Nothing.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history