Chance Quotes
6711 Chance quotes by 4117 unique authors
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Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
— Richard Cobden
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I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the…
— Alexander Fleming
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Give luck a chance to happen.
— Tom Kite
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Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose…
— William Wordsworth
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We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of…
— Desmond Morris
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I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like…
— Beyonce Knowles
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The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per…
— Joseph Sobran
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The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.
— Jack Welch
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As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the…
— Billy Corgan
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People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
— Tim Ferriss
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The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you…
— Walter Russell
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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
— John Arbuthnot
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Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance…
— Nikola Tesla
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I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things…
— Luis Bunuel
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Chance is the only source of true novelty.
— Francis Crick
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
— William Cowper
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No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will…
— Ronald Fisher
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a…
— G. H. Hardy
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the…
— G. H. Hardy
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.
— Isidore of Seville
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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