I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham LincolnHappiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane AustenThe 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.
AristotleI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalWe are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels BohrThe 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 PopeIt's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like saving sex for your old age. Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.
Warren BuffettScience 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 LennonI 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 ArmstrongProducing 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 JobsGOD 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 BabaThe 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 RooneyIf 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 JordanIf you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis SingerI 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 RollinsI 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 PartonIf 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 RohnNot 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 AdamsParents 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 MaughamBefore 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 AllenLife 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 BabaYou 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 BabaAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance nature compulsions habit reason passion and desire.
AristotleSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer