Chance Quotes
6711 Chance quotes by 4117 unique authors
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Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.
— Phil Knight
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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…
— Unknown Author
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For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance…
— Ginny Brown-Waite
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A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.
— Erwin Rommel
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It’s very important for entrepreneurs to be realistic. So if you believe on that first day while you’re writing the business plan that there’s a…
— Jeff Bezos
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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
— Eric Hoffer
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I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.
— Garth Brooks
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Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man…
— John Jakes
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If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is…
— Christiaan Barnard
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When we allow ourselves to become vulnerable, to take chances, and to risk our pride, that is when we find our own glory.
— Richard J. Corman
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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
— David Elkind
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What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.
— Unknown Author
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I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.
— Luis Tiant
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I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
— Earl Weaver
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I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we…
— Clarence Birdseye
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No victor believes in chance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Every time I mess up is a chance to practice.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
— Paul Valery
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People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.
— Unknown Author
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