Top 100 Chance Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best chance quotes ever written, picked out of the full chance archive on QuoteForever. You will find Euripides, Garry Kasparov, Shirley Temple and Francois De La Rochefoucauld among them.

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1

I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

2

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

3

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

4

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

5

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

6

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

7

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

8

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

9

John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances

10

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

11

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

12

It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.

13

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

14

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

15

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

16

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

17

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

18

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

19

Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

20

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

21

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

22

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

23

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

24

You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

25

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

26

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

27

I have proven people wrong so many times. I was told when I was younger there is no chance I will make the top 100, top 50, top 30. Every time I have proven them wrong. It's kind of nice.

28

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

29

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.

30

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

31

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

32

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

33

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

34

You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.

35

There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.

36

Life ends so fast, so take your chance, and make it last.

37

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

38

Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face? - How is a hamburger supposed to punch me in the face? Just say that it can. Would you bother? Or would you eat something else?

39

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

40

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

41

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

42

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

43

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

44

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die

45

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

46

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

47

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

48

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

49

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

50

I don`t know that I`m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there`s a good chance I won`t.

51

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

52

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.

53

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

54

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

55

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

56

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

57

Every time a child is born, we have another chance.

58

You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

59

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

60

Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.

61

So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.

62

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.

63

I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.

64

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

65

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.

66

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

67

If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

68

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

69

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

70

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

71

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

72

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

73

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

74

One of the things I say is I don't think any of us should be average. Everybody's got a gift. The chance of finding your gift and then sharing it. There's just no room in this world to be average, you need to be the best you can be.

75

Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

76

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

77

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

78

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

79

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

80

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

81

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

82

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

83

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

84

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

85

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

86

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

87

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

88

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

89

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

90

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

91

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

92

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

93

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite.

94

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

95

I hope someday when I date my fan, she loves me as a person and not as a famous Greyson Chance

96

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

97

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

98

I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren’t willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place — so you can share the blame.

99

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

100

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

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