Quotes about Chance

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

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.

While there's life, there's hope.

Everything in life is luck.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Give me the chance to love you...Cause you are on my mind. I wanna know you feel it. What do you see when you close your eyes? You are on my mind.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.