Quotes on Chance

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.

Every day is a crossroads. Every day is a chance to change your life and our world for the better.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

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

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

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

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.