Chance Quotes

“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”

Niccolò Machiavelli

“All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.”

Voltaire

“Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Something will turn up.”

Charles Dickens

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

Jane Austen

“There is no education like adversity.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays.”

Omar Khayyam

“Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire.”

Omar Khayyam

“Death and life have their determined appointment; riches and honours depend upon Heaven.”

Confucius

“The meshes of the net of Heaven are large; far apart, but letting nothing escape.”

Lao Tzu

“For man also knoweth not his time.”

The Bible (Ecclesiastes 9:12)

“My times are in thy hand.”

The Bible (Psalm 31:15)

“Be ye therefore ready also.”

The Bible (Luke 12:40)

“In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.”

The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:14)

“It was a chance that happened to us.”

The Bible (1 Samuel 6:9)

“For this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.”

The Bible (Luke 15:32)

“Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.”

The Bible (Revelation 3:8)

“Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come.”

The Bible (Habakkuk 2:3)

“The battle is not yours, but God's.”

The Bible (2 Chronicles 20:15)

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.”

The Bible (Isaiah 55:8)

“Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.”

The Bible (Romans 5:3-4)

“Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

The Bible (James 1:2-3)

“Look before you leap.”

Aesop

“Stoop to conquer.”

Aesop

“Patience, and shuffle the cards.”

Miguel de Cervantes