Chance Quotes - Page 2

• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Destiny, Giving

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  Ezra Pound

  Peace, Real, War

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Narrators

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• If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

  Red Skelton

  Smile, Silly, Heart

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; he has been put on his wits, on his manhood; he has gained facts; learns his ignorance; is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Men, Defeat

  "Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

  Richard DeVos

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Positive Thinking

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• This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Second Chance, Found, Has Beens

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• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Good Luck, Luck

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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Taken, Opportunity, Men

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• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

  Clarence Day

  Children, Good Day, Parent

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• To be successful, one must take chances.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Successful, Reincarnation

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

  George Sand

  Discouragement

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.74

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• The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

  Roger Babson

  Motivational, Success, Men

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• Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Famous Inspirational, Important

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.370, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

  Matthew Arnold

  Fate

  'Resignation' (1849) l. 247

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• One chance is all you need.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Jacques Delille

  Life, Best Friend, Family

  "Pitié" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1895.

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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Business, Men

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• We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Second Chance, Giving

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• What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

  Anatole France

  Art, Atheist, Stupid

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• Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

  Mel Gibson

  Independence, Film, Really Cool

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• I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Berries, Looks, Sexuality

  "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Men, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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