Quotes About Chance

Never play with the Devil if you are afraid to shake the dice because you will never throw a six.

Take what life gives you if there is no more than a second chance.

The only time you don't have a chance is when you don't take a chance.

The opportunity knocks only once and does not wake up those that are asleep.

The real tragedy of life is that only some of the people in this world succeed in making use of the second chance when God offers them.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.

No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

If you ain't just a little scared when you enter a casino, you are either very rich or you haven't studied the games enough.

As long as free men are the prevailing majority in the earth there is a very good chance of breaking this cycle. To do so, however, free men must achieve an intelligent and dynamic solidarity at least as strong as the illusory but firmly fixed purposes of Homo-Marxian.

If thou must chooseBetween the chances, choose the odd;Read the New Yorker; trust in God;And take short views.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.

But once in a while the odd thing happens, Once in a while the dream comes true, And the whole pattern of life is altered, Once in a while the moon turns blue.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

How It Happens" The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many are clinging to that I am giving you a chance I was looking up and I said I am the only chance I have then the sky did not answer and here we are with our names for the days the vast days that do not listen to us

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.