Chance Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
Thomas Pynchon

It is personality with a penny’s worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.
Pablo Picasso

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
Charles Kingsley

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford

Chance governs all.
John Milton

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks

That power which erring men call chance.
John Milton

Chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception of our minds, and only a compendious way of speaking.
Richard Bentley

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Brooks

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence Peter

Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.
Richard Bach

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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

Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
Josh Hartnett

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

If I Had My Life To Live Over: I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swi.
Anonymous

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something.
Anonymous

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
Thucydides

I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.
J.R.R. Tolkien

When you take the bull by the horns… what happens is a toss up.
William Pett Ridge

Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Never miss a chance to shut up.
Will Rogers

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
Ani Difranco

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant