Second Chance Quotations

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

A lot of people dont get second chances.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

It was only after Pather Panchali had some success at home that I decided to do a second part. But I didn't want to do the same kind of film again, so I made a musical.

Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

You don't get second chances in the real world.

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

I'm going to use whatever God blesses me with as a platform to tell the world that God is for you. He proved it through sending Jesus down here to die for us and be resurrected. And for us that gives us second chances and it gives us hope, and so we spread that message everywhere.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.