Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. Votes: 4
Jonas SalkLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Votes: 4
Abigail AdamsThe history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Votes: 4
Dwight D. EisenhowerEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. Votes: 4
Jean-Paul SartreHave more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance. Votes: 3
L. Tom Perry... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. Votes: 3
Louis PasteurWe are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. Votes: 3
Edward DahlbergPeople destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment. Votes: 3
Ralph Waldo EmersonSit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance. Votes: 3
T. B. JoshuaI would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Votes: 3
Roger PenroseLove is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. Votes: 3
Masha TupitsynGreat healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. Votes: 3
Paramahansa YoganandaMan has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. Votes: 3
Jose Ortega y GassetLife is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. Votes: 3
W. Somerset MaughamIf by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareThere is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. Votes: 3
Jeanette WintersonI believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoI might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. Votes: 3
MoliereThere seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonIf you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively. Votes: 3
Pierre DukanIf, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you. Votes: 3
Mehgan Heaney-GrierThese things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. Votes: 3
Calvin CoolidgeLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Votes: 3
Abigail AdamsMeaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. Votes: 3
Bill CrawfordI definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance. Votes: 3
Evangeline Lilly...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance... Votes: 3
Charles FinchBe at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance. Votes: 3
Eileen CaddyIf what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Votes: 3
Anne BradstreetI started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. Votes: 3
Kenny BakerI started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. Votes: 3
Kenny BakerNo man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Votes: 3
PlutarchI did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. Votes: 3
Gaspard UllielIf by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK. Votes: 3
Emmanuelle RivaGrowth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. Votes: 2
James Cash PenneyLazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. Votes: 2
Ann RuleYour chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Votes: 2
Robert CollierThat which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Votes: 2
Paul ValeryThe mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance. Votes: 0
Martin Farquhar TupperThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleThe more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it. Votes: 0
Frank ZaneTime was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance. Votes: 0
Nicholas Murray ButlerBy getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiIf we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals. Votes: 0
Carl WhitakerThe chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning. Votes: 0
Michael PetersonAny creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation. Votes: 0
StarhawkThere is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there. Votes: 0
Sara BareillesThere is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance. Votes: 0
Lynn ViehlA holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. Votes: 0
May SartonShaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance. Votes: 0
Ben LernerIf you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance Votes: 0
Danielle SteelValor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. Votes: 0
TacitusIf you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it. Votes: 0
Joel ParkinsonI'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance. Votes: 0
Iqbal QuadirShe wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved. Votes: 0
Robert M. DrakeThere are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. Votes: 0
Baltasar GracianAs long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. Votes: 0
Susan NeimanI try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. Votes: 0
Patrick WilsonIf by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieWe've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them. Votes: 0
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