Chance Quotes

Nothing, I knew, had any chance against death.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.[La chance qui nous échappe peut se représenter au moment suprême.]

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world? It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.

Though men take pride in their noble deeds, the deeds themselves often derive, not from noble intentions, but from simple chance.[Quoique les hommes se flattent de leurs grandes actions, elles ne sont pas souvent les effets d’un grand dessein, mais des effets du hasard.]

There’s good chances and bad chances, and nobody’s luck is pulled only by one string.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

The Deniers of Chance. No conqueror believes in chance.[Die Leugner des Zufalls. – Kein Sieger glaubt an den Zufall.]

Stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.