Chance Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Anonymous

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the results of any great design, but of chance.

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at…

— Herodotus

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that…

— Anonymous

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

— Francis Bacon

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

— Hugh Walpole

Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in…

— Democritus

“The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but”

— Amor Towles

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

— Sheryl Sandberg

Shallow men believe in luck.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw…

— Horace Walpole