Chance Quotes

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men, History, Free

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

Life, Positive, Person

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose Bierce

Game, Enjoy, Player

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono

Change, Fun, Rock

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Art, Thoughts, Keep

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Work, Politics, Battle

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore Vidal

Sex, Miss, Television

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Dave Brubeck

Mistakes, Before, Play

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Yourself, Unless

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature, Suffering, Another

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph

Men, Live, Give

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton

Good, Wrong, Attention

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Judge, True, Reason

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Men, Truth

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush

Life, America, Path

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
Harvey Fierstein

Great, Mean, Lose

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Time, May

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek

Help, Someone, Ask

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Reason, Born, Weakness

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

Work, Makes, Second

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac

Dear, Sovereign, Deity

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope

Art, True, Writing

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis

Life, Money, Lonely

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson

Jail, Ship, Drowned

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

Smile, Luck, Fortune

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen

Marriage, Happiness, Matter

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France

Art, Able, Earth

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

Dreams, Someone, Nothing

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge

Trust, Results, Abide

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran Lebowitz

Winning, Play, Same

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