Quotes about Chance
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
- Winston Churchill
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
- Rick Warren
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
- Babe Ruth
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
- Cormac McCarthy
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck. Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action
- Napoleon Hill
one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
- Napoleon Hill
Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!
- Toni Morrison
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
- William James
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
- Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
- Charles Spurgeon
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
- Euripides
No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca