“Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FreedomFate
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.
“The book of Nature is the book of Fate.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureFate
“A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CharacterFortune
“Opportunities fall in the way of every one who is resolved to take advantage of them.”
Samuel Smiles
OpportunityDetermination
“Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.”
Benjamin Disraeli
ControlResponsibility
“Our little systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ChangeImpermanence
“O yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
HopeFaith
“If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss.”
Rudyard Kipling
RiskResilience
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
Victor Hugo
IdeasTiming
“He who considers too much will perform little.”
Friedrich Schiller
ActionOverthinking
“Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile is earned.”
Emily Dickinson
Hard WorkLuck
“While there's life, there's hope.”
Cicero
HopeSecond Chances
“Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.”
Virgil
EnduranceFortune
“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.”
Ovid
PatienceHope
“There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.”
The Bible (Proverbs 19:21)
PlansFaith
“Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour.”
The Bible (James 4:14)
UncertaintyLife
“Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.”
The Bible (Genesis 50:20)
Hidden BlessingsFaith
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.”
The Bible (Joel 2:25)
Second ChancesRestoration
“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise.”
The Bible (Micah 7:8)
ResilienceHope
“For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.”
The Bible (Proverbs 24:16)
ResilienceSecond Chances
“And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time.”
The Bible (Jonah 3:1)
Second ChancesFaith
“To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.”
Aesop
TimingWisdom
“There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”
Orison Swett Marden
OpportunityAwareness
“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Edward Gibbon
SkillPreparation
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
Blaise Pascal
ChanceIdeas