Chance Quotes

There are a lot of ways to become a failure, but never taking a chance is the most successful. As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

Sometimes you just try things and they happen.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.