Chance Quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

Truth, Lie, Before

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Good

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar

Birthday, Start, Year

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love, Happy, Person

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

Nature, Human, Passion

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Work, Best

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Positive, Thought, Thoughts

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon

Peace, Saying, Give

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous Huxley

Long, After, Themselves

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan

Work, True, Hard

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West

Else, Somebody, Second

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Destiny, Matter, Choice

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan

Football, Play, College

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Universe, System

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Basketball

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton

Smile, Heart, Feeling

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, Men, Reason

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, May, Read

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Nothing

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan

Money, Happy, Ask

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.
David Millar

Mistakes, Human, Second

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates

Dreams, Great, Fact

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank Sinatra

Yourself, Important, Pretty

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Father, Him, American

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs

Life, Die, Excellent

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford

Big, Lives, Less

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
Voltaire

Nothing, Sense, Word

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