Quotes About Chance

You've been inexpressibly lucky," he said finally. "And inexpressibly mad, although in your case the two seem to be the same thing

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

In war, luck is half in everything.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

The sacred geometry of chance, sir.

We're lucky just to be alive.

Nothing in this universe occurs by accident.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

things get worked through…or work themselves through, we probably don't have all that much to do with it. we like to think we do, though, right?

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Anna would stay, would watch. She would wait for an opening, a chance, then she would take it. Too many years rescuing lost hikers, mourning friends, and seeking justice for the dead had passed for her not to know she was, and always would be, her sister's keeper.

You've got to stay in the game. Your luck's bound to change. Be a shame to miss it

But I didn't give it more weight than that then, not yet realising you can turn a corner and find your life waiting there for you, and that if you walked past it, it would come after

you can turn a corner and find your life waiting there for you, and that if you walked past it, it would come after and keep tapping you on the shoulder.

Stay open to opportunity -- you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Unless you're God and you know everything, including the past and the future, most of life is pretty much a question of closing your eyes and stabbing at a map. You have to try not to give yourself a hard time when things turn out to be not as good as you'd hoped.