Chance Quotes

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Chance
  • Start
  • Flying

• Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Joy
  • Blind
  • Labyrinth

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • World
  • Travel
  • Disney

• The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.

  

  Brice Marden
  • Infinite
  • Possibilities
  • Pains

• I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Bad
  • Community
  • Disney

• Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Chance
  • Dinner
  • Fashioned

• Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Chance
  • Steps
  • Delay

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Story

• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Chance
  • Prison

• There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

  

  Hafez
  • Life
  • Running
  • Army

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Future
  • Imagine
  • Expect

• It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Time
  • Person
  • Members

• At least gives you a better chance at uniformity and keeps our assessments from driving people away into the surrounding counties.

  

  Larry Dunn Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Chance
  • Uniformity
  • Counties

• Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

  

  Chuck Schuldiner
  • Life
  • Chance

• Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Music
  • Song
  • Purpose

• You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Chance

• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Reason

• Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Stop
  • Chance
  • Give

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