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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• When we are on tour we also take chances.

  Jan Garbarek

  Take A Chance, Reincarnation

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• The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.

  Stuart Appleby

  Sports, Important, Want

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

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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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• 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'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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• Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

  John Havlicek

  Inspirational, Years, Shots

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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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• I like when people take chances.

  Joshua Homme

  People, Take A Chance

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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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• I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

  Deborah Bull

  Dancing, Interesting, Doe

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• Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Thinking, Certain, Very Good

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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 do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Quality, Links

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2253, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

  Isaac Barrow

  Flower, Book, House

  Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185

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• It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

  Adam Clarke

  Real, Ignorance, Men

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• The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Differences, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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