Chance Quotes - Page 8

• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Inspiring, Happy

  1813 Pride and Prejudice, ch.6.

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• Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Statistics, One Tree Hill Love

  "Invictus" l. 5 (1888)

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• Chance is the fool's name for Fate

  Fred Astaire

  Fate, Names, Fool

  The movie The Gay Divorcee

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• Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Long, Luck

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• Chance is a name for our ignorance.

  Leslie Stephen

  Ignorance, Names, Chances Are

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• I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Golf

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• Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

  Richard Bach

  Destiny, Luck, Jonathan Seagull

  "Nothing by Chance: A Gypsy Pilot's Adventures in Modern America". Book by Richard Bach, 1969.

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  Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

  Jim Carrey

  Life, Success, Fear

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Encouraging, God

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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• Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Travel

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014

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• Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Life, Trust, Opportunity

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  Sammy Hagar

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Years

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• Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Giving, Needs, Proving Yourself

  Charles Henry Fowler, William Harrison De Puy (1879). “Home and Health and Home Economics: A Cyclopedia of Facts and Hints for All Departments of Home Life, Health, and Domestic Economy”

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• If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Courage, Motivational Sports

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• As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

  Bono

  Inspirational, Stars, Fun

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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• Our lives improve only when we take chances.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Truth, Honesty, Risk

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• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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