Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Doris Lessing

The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
Ziggy Marley

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.
Carrie Underwood

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

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

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

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

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus

I never do anything by chance.
Brigitte Bardot

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
Jimmy Johnson

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
Irving Babbitt