Quotes About Chance

Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

This was what men fought for, what men died for: a chance at life, and to fight on other days - the battle of your choice, of the body, or the heart, or the soul.

For rarely man escapes his destiny.

Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Fortune helps the brave.

FORTES FORTUNA ADIUVAT. (Fortune favors the brave.)

Si Dios no juega a los dados con el Universo, como dice Einstein, ¿por qué habría de dejar a sus más milagrosos corpúsculos abandonados a un inmisericorde azar?

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

it is the historian's job to find coherence in the past, nothing in history can be regarded as accidental. For accident-mere chance or "fortune"-explains nothing, and a past composed of accidents is as unhistorical as a past of necessary consequences.