Chance Quotes - Page 6

• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Real Friends, Losing Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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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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• To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Independent, Would Be, Common

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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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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

  Matt Blunt

  Beautiful, Home, Building

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• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  Patricia Ireland

  Winning, Principles, Campaigns

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• A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Dice, Abolish

  1914 Title of poem, in Cosmopolis, May.

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

  John Milton

  Fate, Approach

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 172

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• I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Keys, Boots

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• 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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• 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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• How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

  Philip James Bailey

  Soul, May, Raises

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.82

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• Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Giving, Should, Asks

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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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• People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
  do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
  of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

  Kim Woo-jung

  Uplifting, Fire, Light

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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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• Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Mean, Men, Doors

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

  George V

  Life, Godly, Advice

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• To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!

  Emerson Fittipaldi

  Race, Risk, Thank God

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• Chance favors those in motion.

  James H. Austin

  Inspirational, Basketball, Favors

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

  Euripides

  Fighting, Literature, Prudent

  "Pirithous". Play by Euripides, 5th century BCE.

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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