If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed.
—Charles Lindbergh
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win.
—Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough for Love
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
—Livy
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
—Anatole France
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
—Willie Tyler
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
—Max Eastman
You must make a choice, to take a chance, or your life will never change.
—Jay McLean in Where the Road Takes Me
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's choice—not chance—that determines your destiny.
—Jean Nidetch
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
—Juvenal
The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
—Louis Pasteur
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
—Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
—Thucydides
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
—William Jennings Bryan