Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

Death and blood didn’t turn on a vampire. Fear and the chance to take blood did. There was a difference.

Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren beteiligen sich an der Strukturierung der generierten Information, schaffen dabei unvorhersehbar Neues und erweisen sich dadurch als die zweite schöpferische Instanz neben dem Programmierer . . .

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

[Donald] Trump is going to appeal better to African Americans, Hispanics, and others than previous Republican candidates because he's talking about what they want: a fair chance to have a better life economically.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.

Divorce is contagious. That's right - when you have a close couple friend split up, it increases your chances of getting a divorce by 75 percent.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

Don't leave a 'good time' to chance. Experiences have to be woven with care and planning, like a tapestry.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut. Follow your instincts. Every once in a while, take a chance.

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

Do you know when you go to a very boring dinner and you sit down and you have the chance to talk with somebody and it's so interesting that you learn so much that night that you go back and say, "Oh, finally, I met someone who inspired me"? I love that.

Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.

'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Each day life sends you chances to learn, grow and step into your best. Don't miss them.

Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

Error itself may be happy chance.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.

Events are not a matter of chance.