Chance Quotes

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

~ J. Christopher Herold

Luck is being ready for the chance.

~ J. Frank Dobie

Every man even the most blessed needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

~ Vance Bourjaily

With luck on your side you can do without brains.

~ Giordano Bruno

If fortune turns against you even jelly breaks your tooth.

~ Persian Proverb

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

~ William Shakespeare

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

~ Stephen Leacock

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

~ Edmund Waller

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

~ Erykah Badu

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

~ Abraham Lincoln

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

~ Ronnie Milsap

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

~ Tom Hanks

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

~ Marcus Garvey

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

~ Joshua Bell

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

~ Terence

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy Iii

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

~ Rachel Griffiths

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

~ Myles Munroe

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

~ Mike Colter

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

~ Peter De Vries

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

~ John Ortberg

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

~ Ian Frazier

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

~ Sun Tzu

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

~ Sophocles

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

~ Ezra Pound

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

~ Mario Andretti

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

~ Murray Rothbard

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

~ Kimbal Musk

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

~ Suze Orman

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

~ Riz Ahmed

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

~ Scott Mccloud

I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.

~ Mads Mikkelsen

In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

~ Victoria Pendleton

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

~ Bootsy Collins

Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is just unbelievable, everything about it. You are going around the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, so you have 45 minutes of sunlight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. You do a lap every 90 minutes.

~ Michael J. Massimino

We're seeing an enormous amount of global upward mobility that's quite rapid and quite sudden, and undiscovered individuals have a chance - using the Internet, using computers - to prove themselves very quickly. So I think the mobility story will be a quite complicated one.

~ Tyler Cowen

I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

~ Ron Perlman

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

~ Tia Mowry