Quotes on Second Chance

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

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

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.