Quotes about chance often reflect the idea that life is filled with unpredictable opportunities. These quotes highlight the importance of taking risks and seizing the moment when it arises. They remind us that chance is a fundamental part of our existence, and we should embrace it rather than fear it. These quotes encourage us to trust in the unpredictable nature of life and to have faith that chance can lead us to unimaginable success or happiness.
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one. — Unknown
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. — Gary Gygax
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. — Thomas Fuller
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen. — Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. — Marc Kielburger
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Last Chance Quotes
We 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 Maugham
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul. — Alphonse De Lamartine
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film. — Patrick Swayze
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime. — Nas
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer. — Dieter Rams
Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last. — Vanessa L. Williams
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Look, I want to love this world
as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get
to be alive
and know it. — Mary Oliver
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished. — Diablo Cody
Give Me A Chance Quotes
Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret... — Louis Armstrong
I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If
there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you. — Warren Buffett
You've never gone too far that God can't redeem you, restore you, forgive you, and give you a second chance. — Lysa TerKeurst
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together. — Nile Rodgers
I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money. — Bob Hope
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. — Herbert Hoover
The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease. — Parmenides
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. — Steve Jobs
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em. — Brad Pitt
Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance. — James Brown
No Second Chance Quotes
Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow. — Dylan Thomas
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. — Alan Bennett
... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance. — Jeff Kinney
Take the risk or lose the chance.
There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant. — H. Rap Brown
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. — Kurt von Schleicher
Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right. — Julian Baggini
Life always offers you a second chance. It's called tomorrow.
I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance. — Melody Carlson
We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance. — Sayings
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. — Daphne Du Maurier
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward. — Jamie Ford
One More Chance Quotes
Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. — Bill Gates
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. — Mitch Albom
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack
Life always offers you a second chance. Its called tomorrow.
I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting. — Aaron Taylor-Johnson
And at any moment it all ends with a heartbeat…just one heartbeat, and there’s no more time. One heartbeat and the chance to be saved is gone. One heartbeat and there’s no more choosing—it’s all sealed for eternal life or eternal death. — Jonathan Cahn
No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us. — Ronald Fisher
If someone offers you and amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind. — Vladimir Nabokov
History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us. — Alexander Herzen
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. — William Hazlitt
One Last Chance Quotes
It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . . — J. K. Rowling
When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. — Mark Lanegan
The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last. — Mary-Kate Olsen
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points. — Sterling Marlin
As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock. — Jon Landau
When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else. — Joan M. Drury
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.
I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again. — Judi Shekoni
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends. — Lily Rabe
In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one. — Mo Udall
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, he has had many chances over the last 12 years and he has blown every one of those chances. — Colin Powell
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel
The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. — Steve Harvey
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need — Parker J. Palmer
Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out. — Wiz Khalifa
Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. — Robert Kiyosaki
Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken. — India.Arie
Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing. — Asher Roth
I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing. — Eartha Kitt
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. — Gordon Parks
One Chance Quotes
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. — Jimmy Carter
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always. — Bernadette Soubirous
You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. — Bob Marley
Our 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. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. — Edmund Hillary
Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed. — Bill Walsh
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him. — Jose Mourinho
Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned. — Erich Maria Remarque
Muscle imbalances caused by hours of sitting in chairs have also been hypothesized to contribute to one of the most common health problems on the planet: lower back pain. Depending on where you live and what you do, your chances of getting lower back pain are between 60 and 90 percent. — Daniel Lieberman
Second Chance Quotes
In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone. — Erwin Rommel
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. — Mary Tyler Moore
My whole story is just about me having a second chance. — 2 Chainz
Give people a second chance, but never a third. If they're holding you back, cut them out of your life. — Sahil Bloom
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. — Harrison Ford
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. — Mae West
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. — Sue Monk Kidd
I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. — Tucker Carlson
If you are still breathing, you have a second chance. — Oprah Winfrey
Give It A Chance Quotes
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. — Randy Pausch
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. — Richard M. DeVos
The sooner you cut off negotiations with someone you shouldn't be dealing with, it gives you the chance to move on to a more profitable deal. — Chris Voss
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch
An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors. — Patrick Lencioni
Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines? — Aldous Huxley
The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance. — Van Jones
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. — Richard DeVos
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. — Pancho Villa
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy
Another Chance Quotes
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey
You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. — Richard Russo
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. — Mary Quant
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you. — Lloyd Mangrum
There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over and over ... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility to being caught off-guard. — Karch Kiraly
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. — Dr. Seuss
The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it. — Unknown Author
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. — Mary Pickford
Given A Chance Quotes
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. — Raymond Carver
All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates. — Coretta Scott King
A 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 Huxley
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. — Frank Duff
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. — Jean Rostand
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. — David Millar
To 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 Davis
If 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 Woods
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third. — Pete Rose
Chance And Change Quotes
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart. — Trent Shelton
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. — Jacob M. Braude
In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again. — Zig Ziglar
Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness. — Rupert Brooke
We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. — Bono
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. — Bryce Courtenay
Random Chance Quotes
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. — Eric Chaisson
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. — Rick Warren
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it…. — Robert Anton Wilson
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. — John Polkinghorne
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process. — Richard Dawkins
Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one. — Leonard Mlodinow
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. — Edward Furlong
Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice. — Chris Abani
Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance. — Jack Dempsey
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. — Mary Tyler Moore
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
In Conclusion
In addition, quotes about chance emphasize the notion that we create our own opportunities. They suggest that while chance may present itself unexpectedly, it is up to us to recognize and seize these moments. These quotes inspire us to be proactive in our lives, to be open to new experiences, and to be ready to take advantage of any chances that come our way. They remind us that chance favors those who are prepared and willing to step out of their comfort zone.
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