Chance Quotes

These 41 quotes on chance come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck. — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil
Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. — Chief Joseph
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. — Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man was ever wise by chance. — Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure. — Jack Ma
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
Jack Ma
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart. — Rumi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. — Richard Bach
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.
Richard Bach
No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned. — Seneca
No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.
Seneca
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
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