Chances Are Quotes

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

Solomon's Laws: 8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

Chance is a second master.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.

I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

I think the chances are better of me putting Super Unleaded into a rented car.

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.'

USE COMMON SENSE. If somebody offers you a thousand dollars for this book, chances are their motives are not pure. Then again, a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Take the money and run.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Not everyone can invest their heart into learning something and making it fully realized, and the chances are 9 out of 10 that it's gonna get thrown away.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

Here’s what I think. One, people should figure out that if they go around bothering bears, chances are they’re going to end up bear snacks. Second, people suck.

When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.