Chance Quotes - Page 5

• As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Winning, Years

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• Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

  Sean O'Casey

  Men, Law, Goes On

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Dad, Winning, Prove

  "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, January, 1998.

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• Chance favors those in motion.

  James H. Austin

  Inspirational, Basketball, Favors

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• We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

  Kirk Hammett

  Hate, Band, Something New

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• I like when people take chances.

  Joshua Homme

  People, Take A Chance

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• Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

  Robert A. Dahl

  Democracy, Depends, Bits

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• Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

  Ralph Marston

  Mistake, Moving, Shining

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• Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Dollars, Movement, Reincarnation

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• If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Dream, Fall, Opportunity

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• I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

  John Sculley

  Mistake, Enough Chances, Take A Chance

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1988). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future”, HarperCollins

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• The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

  Paula Cole

  Flower, Proud, Sun

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• You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

  Carly Patterson

  Motivational, Athlete, Feels

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• If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

  Bart Starr

  Football, Hard Work, Effort

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• Chance is a nickname for Providence.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Nicknames, Providence, Chances Are

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• It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

  Julie Bowen

  Patience, War, Attrition

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• If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Money, Hurt

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• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  Patricia Velasquez

  Giving, Bigs, Persons

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• If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

  Chet Atkins

  Reincarnation, Halfway, Ifs

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• Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

  George V

  Life, Godly, Advice

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• When we are on tour we also take chances.

  Jan Garbarek

  Take A Chance, Reincarnation

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• I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

  Werner Klemperer

  Germany, Reincarnation, Happens

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• The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Music, Jazz, Wonderful

  "The singer who disappeared" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

  Ernest Dimnet

  America, Twelve, Rooms

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• Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

  William Matthews

  Men, Ridiculous

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