Quotes About Chance

Fate, bad luck, probability—any of those seemed like a welcome respite from a dismal diagnosis. Now when her computer crashed or a pipe burst in the kitchen, she'd say, It's just one of those things. The phrase made her smile. It could work both ways, she decided. How many times do good things inexplicably come our way too?

A lot can happen in the space of a step.

Cast your hook in the stream where you least expect to get a bite; if you hook a fish, then you'll know you're truly lucky. —Dutch Callahan

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

To take from life what you can, while you can.

fortune was a fickle mistress.

But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.

For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Hold'em — like life itself — has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Everyone is simply riding the wave chance has put them on. Some people know how to surf; some people drown.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

You have only one life, make the most of it

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Life is a lottery that we've already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Sive parens rerum, cum primum informia regna Materiamque rudem flamma cedente recpit, Fixit in aeternum causas, qua cuncta coercet Se quoque lege tenens, et saecula iussa ferentem Fatorum inmoto divisit limite mundum; Sive nihil positom est sed fors incerta vagatur Fertque refertque vices, et habet mortalia casus: Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit caeca future Mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.

Besides the lonely people and the ones who thought we were darling, there were some … two that day … who really felt it was an omen to open the door and be offered a chance, a choice. They took up the most time, but we didn't mind … waited, breathless too, while they talked to themselves.

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.

No man ever became wise by chance.