Quotes about chance

"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."

Adams, Henry Brooks on chance   

"Chance is the providence of adventurers."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on chance   

"In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation."

Buckle, George Earle on chance   

"Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing."

Conner, Bart on chance
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"A fool must now and then be right, by chance."

Cowper, William on chance   

"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."

Delille, Jacques on chance   

"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."

Dempsey, Jack on chance
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"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

Euripides on chance   

"Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance."

Fowler, C. H. on chance   

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"The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign."

France, Anatole on chance   

"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on chance
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"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

Fuller, Thomas on chance
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"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."

Halifax, Edward F. on chance
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"To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer."

Heinlein, Robert on chance
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"I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset"

Javan on chance
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"People who come up with It may not work or What are we going to do if it fails? do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire."

Kim Woo-Choong on chance   

"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on chance   

"Chance favors only those who court her."

Nicolle, Charles on chance   

"One chance is all you need."

Owens, Jesse on chance
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"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on chance   

"If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. The journey has been incredible from its beginning. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness."

Poitier, Sidney on chance   

"Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide."

Russell, G.J. on chance   

"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."

Smith, Adam on chance   

"I do not give money for just mere hopes."

Terence on chance   

"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."

Terence on chance
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"If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one."

Unknown, Source on chance   

"Every chance taken is another chance to win."

Unknown, Source on chance   

"A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous."

Unknown, Source on chance   

"How come fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?"

Ziggy on chance   

"Based on the law of probability, everything is possible because the sheer existence of possibility confirms the existence of impossibility. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on chance