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Charles Franklin Kettering

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Dale Carnegie

Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad

Ed Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50 - 50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Robert Hutchins

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Unknown

The man who said he never had a chance, never took a chance.

John W. Hanley

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Anne Tyler

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

Unknown

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

B. A. Billingsly

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Unknown

Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance

Harrison Ford

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Charlize Theron

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

Unknown

You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man ever became wise by chance.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.

Paul Valery

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Jean Nidetch

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Edgar Bergen

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance

Unknown

Don't deny hope it's chance to work magic

James A. Autry

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance.

Kahlil Gibran

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/chance.htm

Robert Newton Peck

Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.

Francesco Guicciardini

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 587.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Juvenal

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Louis Pasteur

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

Colin Wilson

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Uta Hagan

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Emma Albani

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.

Arnold Palmer

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act iii., Sc. 11.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. lxiii., St. 2.

And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.

Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 1285.

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.

George Bernard Shaw

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

D. Morgan

If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.

Amy Vanderbilt

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 289.

All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.

Dinah Shore

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

Sri da Avabhas

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

Office Space

Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller

There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

"Sam, Ziggy says there's a 94.1% chance your tagline is t

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Hard work never killed anyone, but why chance it?

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

"Give Quiche A Chance -- Rimmer's T-shirt

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.