Quotes about Chance
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
— Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
— Charles Spurgeon
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
— Euripides
No man was ever wise by chance.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
— Laurence Sterne
If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
— George W. Bush
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
— Mark Twain
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
— Marcus Aurelius
Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To believe in luck, if it were not a solecism so to use the word believe, is skepticism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
— Victor Hugo
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
— Lucille Ball