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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. ...
by Jacques Delille

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille

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Sayings by Jacques Delille

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

Chance Sayings

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon

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 PHOTO

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He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus


 

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau

It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West

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

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

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

Makes Sayings

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A dream is a wish your heart makes.
- The Supremes

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fate makes us family. choice makes us friends.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

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

Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

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

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
- Lewis Carroll

The River of Life has no expectations
and makes no assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

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

Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg

When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

The highest education is that which
does not merely give us information
but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous

Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Henry Peter Brougham

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes


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