Chance Quotes - Page 10

• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  New Year, Cheer, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jan 03, 2012

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• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

  "Are We All Nerds Now?" by Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

  Edgar Bergen

  Funny, Business, Work

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

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• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Opportunity, Second Chance, Giving

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

  Horatio Nelson

  Fighting, Sea, Horatio

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

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• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

  Jim McMahon

  Motivational, Failure, Risk

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• It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

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• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Jean Nidetch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

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• In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

  Louis Pasteur

  Past, Mind, Favors

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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  Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.77, Penguin

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Men, History

  Address at the Hunt Armory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 09, 1956.

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• You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Second Chance, Giving, Gone

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2016

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• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Woe, Reason

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• My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when He gives me a chance to prove to Him that I love Him - but all this in peace - in abandonment.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

  Xenophanes

  Truth, Honesty, Done

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• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

  Sophocles

  Peace, War, Men

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• Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

  John Calvin

  Suffering, Inevitable, Humans

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