Chance Quotes

Chances rule men and not men chances.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. (Marquis of Halifax)

The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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

The faster you go, the more chance of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. (The Winter’s Tale)

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are the least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

If old Pontifex had had Cromwell’s chances he would have done all that Cromwell did, and have done it better; if he had had Giotto’s chances he would have done all that Giotto did, and done it no worse; as it was, he was a village carpenter, and I will undertake to say he never […]