“Discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”
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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 makes a fool of him whom she favours too much.”
Publilius Syrus
LuckPride
“When Fortune is on our side, popular favour bears her company.”
Publilius Syrus
SuccessFortune
“For though we sleep or wake, or roam, or ride, ay fleeth the time, it will no man abide.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
TimeOpportunity
“How many things by season season'd are to their right praise and true perfection!”
William Shakespeare
TimingPatience
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
William Shakespeare
ActionTiming
“Take the instant way; for honour travels in a strait so narrow, where one but goes abreast.”
William Shakespeare
OpportunityAction
“As good luck would have it.”
William Shakespeare
LuckFortune
“Strong reasons make strong actions.”
William Shakespeare
DecisionsAction
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.”
William Shakespeare
TimeProcrastination
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, the dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear.”
Thomas Gray
Hidden PotentialChance
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
Benjamin Franklin
ActionHope
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
William Blake
ActionRegret
“There is a tide in the affairs of women, which, taken at the flood, leads - God knows where.”
Lord Byron
FunnyOpportunity
“The sin I impute to each frustrate ghost is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.”
Robert Browning
Missed ChancesRegret
“Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.”
John James Ingalls
OpportunityDestiny
“I knock unbidden once at every gate!”
John James Ingalls
OpportunityChance
“I answer not, and I return no more!”
John James Ingalls
Missed ChancesOpportunity
“They do me wrong who say I come no more when once I knock and fail to find you in.”
Walter Malone
Second ChancesHope
“Each night I burn the records of the day - at sunrise every soul is born again!”
Walter Malone
Second ChancesNew Beginnings
“He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.”
Horace
ProcrastinationAction
“Resist beginnings.”
Ovid
PreventionWisdom
“Occasion turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken.”
Francis Bacon
OpportunityTiming
“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way.”
Oliver Goldsmith
HopeOptimism
“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
Alexander Pope
ExpectationsContentment