Top 1200 Second Chances Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

If it's an emotional chick-flick type of movie, chances are, I'm going to end up crying. I'm not afraid to admit that, because I think emotion is very healthy.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

I thought the chances of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate were minuscule because there are so many other innovations and discoveries that happen almost every day.

Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting.

With Gaga - she's not afraid to take chances. You get these dynamic projects because of it. She's completely unafraid.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

If you have control of the midfield, you have control of the game, and you have more chances to win.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

I'm not second-guessing myself as much as I used to, and I'm not second-guessing the people in my life as much as I used to.

I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

I always talk about shooting being broken down into three things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the third part is confidence. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.

If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.

I consider myself a character actress, and that's working out. I'm getting chances to do things. I like the process - I don't want to pretend I'm something other than what I am.

Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future economy and the life chances of our young people.

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

It's stimulating to teach a new course. To teach a course three times in a row is, I think, about the maximum for me. On the second year - you know, the saying is that first year you learn how to teach the course, the second year you do it right, and the third year you're coasting and you had better move on to something else.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

What I have learned about Metallica is that it's all about taking chances and challenges.

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

I like my chances toe to toe with just about anybody.

I am always slightly mystified by the whole 'Snow White' story. What are the chances of coming across that many diminutive men living in one house in the woods?

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

Every successful photograph, except for lucky shots, begins with an idea and a plan. The more precisely a photographer knows what it is he wishes to do, the better the chances are that he will do it.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

If you are healthy, you can work. If you can work, then the chances of success are higher.

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

If you can attract highly educated people from other parts of the country and keep your own best and brightest, chances are the job creators are going to be successful.

I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.