5,283 Quotes About Chance

If you are only what you are, You at least have a chance Not to outsmart, But be on a par with yourself And that is worth trying.

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.