Chance Quotes

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

~ Ronald Reagan

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

~ Václav Havel

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

~ Michael N. Castle

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

~ John Paul Jones

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

~ Aristotle

I feel blessed. I never wanted to be an actor. It just happened all by chance and fate. I was studying to be a teacher.

~ John Ortiz

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

~ Timothy Noah

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

~ Aaron Spelling

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

~ David Elkind

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

~ Jane Austen

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.

~ Estelle

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

~ Curt Weldon

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

~ Peter Zumthor

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

~ Paul Keating

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

~ Moshe Sharett

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

~ Abigail Adams

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

~ Robert Fulghum

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

~ Samuel Johnson

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

~ Letitia Baldrige

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

~ Scott Adams

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

~ Roberto Clemente

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

~ Naomi Wolf

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

~ Margaret Fuller

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

~ Jack Nicholson

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

~ Salma Hayek

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

~ Jessica Savitch

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

~ Vivienne Westwood

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

~ Terri Clark

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

~ Florence Kelley

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

~ Oprah Winfrey

If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

~ Shreya Ghoshal

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

~ Susan Sarandon

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

~ Emma Caulfield

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

~ Max Weber

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

~ Chad Hurley

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

~ Reba Mcentire

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

~ Regina King

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

~ Deanna Raybourn