Quotes About Chance

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.