Chance Quotes
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So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
William Barclay
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now I live without inspiration. I go day to day and do the work because it's all I know. I know that if I keep moving I stand a chance. I must keep myself going until I find a reason to live. I need one so bad. On the other hand maybe I don't. Maybe it's all bullshit. Nothing I knew from my old life can help me here. Most of the things that I believed turned out to be useless. Appendages from someone else's life.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.
Elaine Scarry
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This legislation will give miners a fighting chance to survive situations like what happened at Sago.
J. M. Roberts
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
Philip James Bailey
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A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.
Plato
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Even half a chance beats none.
Cynthia Lord
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
Seamus Heaney
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I think if they can get eight (ACC) wins, they've got a great chance. I think it's mandatory to win one of the next two. And obviously a win over Duke would be absolutely an eye-catcher.
Dick Vitale
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Thomas was running the ball well. I didn't get much of a chance.
Cedric Benson
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Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.
Joe Montana
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And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
William H. McRaven
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People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.
Andrew Solomon
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
Francis Bacon
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Our relationship, musically and friendship-wise, came to a halt for a couple of years, ... Slowly those doors opened again, and we had an opportunity to do some shows in Spain and took the chance to experiment over the course of a year or so. I spent some time repairing my friendship with Jon, and then we were probably open to anything at that point.
Alex Chilton Big Star
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The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Napoleon Hill
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
William Shakespeare
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If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln New Mexico. Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy the Kid
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It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.
Ricky Williams
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The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
Adrian Bejan
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If you have a diverse workforce, then you have a much better chance of picking up on things that a lack of diversity would hide from them.
Vivienne Ming