5,283 Quotes About Chance

Sometimes we need boldness, creativity and wisdom to enforce the change we want in us and others.

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.

Luck never brings luxury to the lazy.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

I WAS NOT BORN TO TAKE YOU TO THE OTHER END OF LIFE. IT'S A CHANCE THAT WE ARE TOGETHER ON THIS JOURNEY.SO MUCH THAT IS. DON'T MULL OVER WHAT IS NOT.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Much of what happens in life is a chance.

A year from now, everything you’re stressing about won’t mean a thing. Be thankful, smile more, spend more time with family and don’t stress the small things. This is our one chance at life. Don’t let anyone or anything take away your happiness.