I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham LincolnI've learned that no matter what happens or how bad it seems today life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya AngelouRead the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
AristotleThe greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
AristotleDo you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
Mother TeresaThere is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxNecessity is the mother of taking chances.
Mark TwainI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalThe history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice, their choice!
Dwight D. EisenhowerThose who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin CoolidgeTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeIf there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham LincolnAmerica is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. BushA consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin DisraeliScience predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Stephen HawkingAll we are saying is give peace a chance.
John LennonWhen a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Mark TwainChance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus GarveyBisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody AllenI mean, we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested, on the contrary - he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyChance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.
VoltaireI think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog because it's the perfect way to ride this race.
Lance ArmstrongFar and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore RooseveltThough men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Francois de La RochefoucauldProducing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew BarrymoreSecond we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend every parent should have a choice and every child should have a chance.
Mitt RomneyNo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail, for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room better food and commonly better company.
Samuel JohnsonPerhaps I'm old and tired but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Douglas AdamsYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaWe don't get a chance to do that many things and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief and then you die you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve JobsUnless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett MardenGOD gave you the time space cause material idea skill chance and fortune. Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
Sai BabaSee in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.
Sai BabaFreedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert CamusIf the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill CosbyThe 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy RooneyOnly one God is present in everyone. Never follow the differences basing on the differences of the body. There is no chance or scope for conflict.
Sai BabaI mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Lily TomlinI've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian TracyChance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EuripidesIf you are given a chance to be a role model I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger WoodsIn college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people to travel and expand my financial capabilities to get ideas and learn about life to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael JordanNo government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceI figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran LebowitzWeird things happen in the NBA and tonight was one of them. We had a chance to win the game and just didn't close it out. They made some big shots down the stretch and came away with the victory. Even though (Odom) made a mistake as a team defense down the stretch cost us the ballgame.
Kobe BryantThe whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance a revolutionary crisis or a battle.
Alexis de TocquevilleI want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
Christina AguileraChance my dear is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de BalzacWar never takes a wicked man by chance the good man always.
SophoclesChance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceTake a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale CarnegieThe people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.
Hillary ClintonNo foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. KissingerNothing happens by chance my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing and such a meaning behind this. Part for you part for me may not see it all real clear right now but we will before long.
Richard BachFor the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlinI think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl chances are they'll like her clothes.
Hedy LamarrIf you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis SingerIf you live on the level of the Body and the Individual you will get entangled in food fun and frolic ease envy and pride. Forget it ignore it overcome it -- You will have peace joy and calm. In the Divine Path there is no chance of failure, it is the Path of Love.
Sai BabaThere is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life, their Christianity for instance.
Friedrich NietzscheThere are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word it overflows and its secret Spilt on the ground like water can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhen I was in college I was debating to try my hand at show business or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
Steve MartinWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole FranceI think more tolerance more people having more access to a chance to be literate and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
Henry RollinsWomen have equal chances and equal rights to attain Godhead
Sai BabaEqual opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. PeterAnything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance but you have to believe and you have to fight.
Lance ArmstrongThere is no such thing as chance, and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich SchillerI think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly PartonChance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast, in the pool where you least expect it there will be fish.
OvidThe great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later.
Harvey FiersteinWe cannot always assure the future of our friends, we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. KissingerNo woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn't want to be prime minister, you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret ThatcherOur soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings our sense of direction. When we're two balloons and together our direction is up chances are we've found the right person.
Richard BachIt is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone WeilThe person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart MillBeing in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel JohnsonThere are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.
Tiger WoodsAt a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
Mitt RomneyEvery existing thing is born without reason prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreI can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody AllenWe are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt DisneyI just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself as well as a child.
Hillary ClintonTo fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette DavisIf you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim RohnAn American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting, and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small and even though we shall all die some day we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Richard DawkinsNot only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits those who expound to the people gathering fame use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises they benefit by the scholarship but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.
Sai BabaEvery action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
AristotleNow it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist ' says God `for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.' `But ' says Man `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist and so therefore by your own arguments you don't. QED.' `Oh dear ' says God `I hadn't thought of that ' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh that was easy ' says Man and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas AdamsIt gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.
Lance ArmstrongWe should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Henry MillerA wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas FullerChance gives rise to thoughts and chance removes them, no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise PascalA good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis MorissetteParents are given that name because it is through them that we have the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us we must PAY RENTS to them.
Sai BabaWhat are you going to do play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years >Read People Magazine your whole life...? Take a freakin' chance!
George CarlinWe are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset MaughamThe youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on the earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David ThoreauBefore complaining that you are a slave to another be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within,...You will find there perchance slavish thoughts slavish desires and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these, cease to be a slave to self and no man will have the power to enslave you.
James AllenWhile I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Lance ArmstrongIt takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. SchullerLife has to be lived through for the sake of the chance to unfold the virtues.Otherwise man is a burden upon the earth a consumer of food.
Sai BabaNo man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaJoint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EuripidesGoing to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald ReaganYou have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift namely the poor the illiterate the weak the diseased the grieving the broken-hearted who seek your help.
Sai BabaIt's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt DisneyLuck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar GracianAll discarded lovers should be given a second chance but with somebody else.
Mae WestIf you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
William HazlittIn liberal logic if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Thomas SowellI've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Fran LebowitzA chance conglomeration of humans does not become a society.
Sai BabaAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion and desire.
AristotleI have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry MillerInsurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
Ambrose BierceSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis SingerEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerNo man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
PlutarchI've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.
Andrew JacksonPeople often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
Frank SinatraWhat else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that.
Lance ArmstrongAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinDo not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too, accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned!
Sai BabaNewspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
Dave BarryI'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Lance ArmstrongWhile there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. WellsA man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart MillHe is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA fool must now and then be right by chance.
William CowperIn my mind's eye I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams