Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan

They say hard work never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance.
Ronald Reagan

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

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

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt Disney

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

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

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams