Chance Quotes

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Thomas Fuller

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

Aristotle

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Samuel Johnson

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Chance favors only those who court her.

Charles Nicolle

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Shakespeare

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

Aristotle

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Frederick William Robertson

And as for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. Genesis 50:20

Bible

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

Jack Dempsey

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.

Sidney Poitier

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

Anatole France

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

Anatole France

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead, that it has escaped me.

Blaise Pascal

I am a parcel of vain strivings tied By a chance bond together, Dangling this way and that, their links Were made so loose and wide, Methinks, For milder weather.

Henry David Thoreau

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Benjamin Disraeli

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong...But it might.

Terry Pratchett