5,283 Quotes About Chance

If you give people a chance, they shine.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Yes, we live, or we're given the chance to, at least, but sometimes living is hard and complicated because of fear.

Stop believing the false hope that "if it’s meant to be” it will happen. If that were true, everyone would be content, wealthy, fit and have great relationships. You must plan, act, persevere, make better choices, know your value and never, ever accept less than you truly deserve. It's not up to chance, it's up to you.

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

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

For now I know that whatever bent this world around us, whether it was God or whether it was blindChance as blind as my father,Is perfectly good, we're given a dollar of life to gamble against a dollar's worth of desireAnd if we win we have both but losers lose nothing,

Destiny is surely propelled by desires. Desires push and pull you to make big moves and landslide changes, but they don’t propel you to the people who will help shape those desires. The street directions of our life’s path are difficult to read. They aren’t intuitive... they’re the product of the minutiae of our daily lives: accidental meetings and chances that happen while you’re getting fed or finding shelter. And on the road, that means the influence of complete strangers.