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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
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Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.
All is system and gradation.
Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path.
One choice makes us slaves to circumstance,
while the other empowers us, and motivates us
to follow our dreams - and our happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
The most important promises are
the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we makes to ourselves
are the things that assure us
we have the capacity
to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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