Top 999 Chance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.

As leaders, I think we have to give people in many places a chance to have success, not continue to put those people down.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

I came to the realization that I can also satisfy my creative side by giving somebody else a chance. I don't have to be in front of the camera for every project.

As long as you're working hard for what you love doing, you'll have a good chance of getting somewhere with it.

I think there is always room for improvement, and every day is a chance to get better.

I do like to think of myself as a star: because there's room for many stars up in the sky - and we all have the chance to shine bright.

I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.

It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

Because of my success in the private sector, I had the chance to run America's largest city for 12 years, governing in the wake of its greatest tragedy.

The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.

India happen to me by chance. It's in my destiny. As soon as I landed here, it only took me 4 months to know exactly why I was here and what had destined to do here.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

I'm not exactly a huge Beatles fan, but when I have a chance to visit a legendary place like the Beatles museum, I definitely use it. It's historic.

If you put a person in a training gym made out of entire gold, it doesn't guarantee that this person will become a champion. But if you put a person in the basement, then there is a high chance that he will get out of this basement as a champion.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

A lot of times you go to a fight and the crowd will be for a certain fighter who is the favourite but if the underdog shows he has a chance they sometimes even swing to side of the underdog.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Living is risking.

I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

It is embarrassing that a player would give up his career and the chance to compete for the biggest prizes in the game just for money.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Absolutely, I think every day is a new day, every day is a new opportunity, and every day is a new chance.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

Don't push away that chance if you're one of the lucky ones who find that partner. And remember, you can always change a job. I hear it's much harder to switch out a husband.

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

All good ideas arrive by chance.

You never know when your chance will come. You have to be mentally prepared and be in best shape possible.

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.

You will always miss chances, but you can't do anything about them once they've gone. It's always about the next chance.

Taking risks gives me energy.

As soon as I heard of Common Goal I knew this was a chance for football to improve our world and I wanted to be part of it.

Take the risk. Take the chance. Put your heart and soul into it, because when you put your soul into it, you will become what you've always dreamed. You yourself will become a legend.