“Fire tests gold, suffering brave men.”
Seneca
AdversityStrength
Chance Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHANCE
Chance Quotes
Read 200 of the best chance quotes about luck, fortune, fate, opportunity and second chances, from Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Louis Pasteur and more.
“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.”
Seneca
AdversityGrowth
“Nothing ought to be unexpected by us.”
Seneca
PreparationWisdom
“Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.”
Seneca
CourageFortune
“Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.”
Marcus Aurelius
FateAcceptance
“Remember that thou art an actor in a play, of such a kind as the teacher may choose.”
Epictetus
FateLife
“I turn the wheel that spins. I delight to see the high come down and the low ascend.”
Boethius
FortuneChange
“In all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”
Boethius
MisfortuneLoss
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
Boethius
MindsetContentment
“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.”
Pliny the Elder
UncertaintyWisdom
“Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, the joys I have possess'd, in spite of fate, are mine.”
Horace
GratitudeFate
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed of it.”
Michel de Montaigne
FortuneResponsibility
“Fortune turns everything to the advantage of those she favours.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
LuckFortune
“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
SuccessCharacter
“Fortune breaks us of many faults that reason could not.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
GrowthFortune
“Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.”
William Shakespeare
FortuneNature
“Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.”
William Shakespeare
FortuneFunny
“Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel!”
William Shakespeare
HopeFortune
“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”
William Shakespeare
MisfortuneStruggle
“What fates impose, that men must needs abide.”
William Shakespeare
FateAcceptance
“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
William Shakespeare
RiskCourage
“I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die.”
William Shakespeare
RiskCourage
“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
William Shakespeare
FateAcceptance
“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”
Miguel de Cervantes
Hard WorkLuck
“Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise; but there be secret and hidden virtues that bring forth fortune.”
Francis Bacon
CharacterFortune