Chance(Related Subjects: Luck)

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939 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 (55 AD - 127 AD) In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), lecture 1854 Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD) Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC) 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 (1860 - 1925)