Chance Quotes - Page 44

Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance!

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

Only those who never step, never stumble.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.

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.

If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Keep your eye on the main chance and don't stop to kick every barking dog.

If I spend 100 days in a row making music there’s a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it’s guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

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

The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.