“Character is destiny.”
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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.
“Fortune raises and Fortune humbles the lucky or the unlucky from day to day.”
Sophocles
FortuneChange
“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
Solon
FateUncertainty
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
Herodotus
RiskCourage
“The die is cast.”
Julius Caesar
DecisionRisk
“Men willingly believe what they wish.”
Julius Caesar
Human NatureHope
“No one has found the gods so kind that he can promise himself tomorrow.”
Seneca
UncertaintyToday
“Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit in summer.”
Marcus Aurelius
AcceptanceLife
“God governs all things, and chance and opportunity co-operate with Him in the government of human affairs.”
Plato
ProvidenceChance
“Leave no stone unturned.”
Euripides
EffortPersistence
“Everything changes, nothing perishes.”
Ovid
ChangeLife
“Perhaps even these things will one day be pleasant to remember.”
Virgil
HopeHard Times
“Leave the rest to the gods.”
Horace
AcceptanceFaith
“Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.”
William Shakespeare
StrategyTiming
“Let the end try the man.”
William Shakespeare
CharacterOutcomes
“The worst is not so long as we can say 'This is the worst.'”
William Shakespeare
HopeHard Times
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
William Shakespeare
MisfortuneHard Times
“There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”
William Shakespeare
ProvidenceFaith
“Men's judgments are a parcel of their fortunes.”
William Shakespeare
JudgmentFortune
“Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.”
William Shakespeare
CourageMisfortune
“Chance governs all.”
John Milton
ChanceFate
“All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; all Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see.”
Alexander Pope
ProvidencePerspective
“'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.”
Joseph Addison
SuccessEffort
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
Francis Bacon
ProsperityAdversity
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Francis Bacon
CharacterAdversity