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Quotes about Chance

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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945)

CP It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
- Jean Nidetch

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur, French biologist & bacteriologist (1822 - 1895)

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan, US lawyer, orator, & politician (1860 - 1925)

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
- Thucydides, Greek historian (471 BC - 400 BC)

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
- Ovid, Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD)

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
- Juvenal, Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)