Quotes on Chances Are

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way.

The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

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

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.