Chance Quotes
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I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
William Howard Taft
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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 next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.
Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
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I feel all right physically, but I don't feel all right showing these results. I've always been pinpoint, and right now I'm not. I go through these little slumps. Hopefully, this one is coming early and we'll get it behind us. Basically, what really hurts is we're here to win and we can't win if I don't give us a chance.
Eddie Guardado
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Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.
William Howard Taft
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All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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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 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
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He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.
Ernest K. Gann
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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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The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
Erwin McManus
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Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.
Steve Earle
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Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.
Sean Penn
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What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
Seneca the Younger
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My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
Johnny Depp
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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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Many of the musicians have their own plans, They must be given a chance.
Jesús "Aguaje" Ramos Buena Vista Social Club
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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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The chance is the remotest. Of its going much longer unnoticed. That I'm not keeping pace With the headlong human race.
Robert Frost
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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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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
William Shakespeare
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When I finished the Boston race in 1967, there were two things I wanted to do. I wanted to become a better athlete because my first marathon was 4:20. In those days, that was considered a jogging time and I knew people were going to tease me. But I was more fascinated with what women could do if they only had the chance.
Kathrine Switzer
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Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.
John Arbuthnot