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Quotes About Chance

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
~ Euripides
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.
~ Unknown
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
~ Emily Murphy
The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
~ Bert McCracken
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
~ John Smith
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
~ Louis Pasteur
I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.
~ Cameron Monaghan
Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.
~ Kathy Reichs
Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.
~ Stephen D. Krashen
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'
~ Michael N. Castle
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
~ Elisabeth Rohm
When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.
~ Niki Lauda
With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
~ Douglas MacArthur
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
~ Evan Esar
We have the chance to build this new energy economy in ways that reflect our deepest values of inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunity for everyone.
~ Van Jones
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
~ Niels Bohr
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
~ John Pilger
If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?
~ Jack Ma
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.
~ Kobo Abe
Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.
~ Richard Wiseman