Chance Quotes

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Aristotle

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Edward F. Halifax

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

James Allen

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

Terence

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

Terence

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.

G.J. Russell

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Dr. David Schwartz

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

I make no vows. I take my chance.... It means that I fear certainty as you fear uncertainty. It means that nothing is certain but uncertainty. If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

George Bernard Shaw

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

Vernon Howard

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

George Bernard Shaw

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Leo Buscaglia

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Michel Foucault

One chance is all you need.

Jesse Owens

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 WooChoong

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

George Earle Buckle

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron