Quotes about Chance
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
- Laurence Sterne
If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
- George W. Bush
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- Mark Twain
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
- Marcus Aurelius
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
- Victor Hugo
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
- Lucille Ball
He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.
- John of the Cross
There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.
- Victor Hugo
He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.
- Victor Hugo
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
- Milan Kundera