Given A Chance Quotes

• A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Hard Work, Science

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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

  Pete Rose

  Second Chance, Giving, Needs

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

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Change, Second Chance

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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

  Shelley Fabares

  Second Chance, Dying, Chance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Mae West

  Love, Sad, Boyfriend

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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

  Tia Mowry

  Second Chance, Want, Harder

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• People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

  David Millar

  Mistake, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Positive, Army, Positivity

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

  Andrew Greeley

  Romantic Love, Second Chance, Give Me A Chance

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• A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

  David Hockney

  Blow, People, Chance

  "Disposable cameras". Interview with Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2004.

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• Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

  Maya Angelou

  Second Chance, Giving, Sometimes

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

  Oksana Baiul

  Second Chance, Giving, Thank God

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• Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

  Josh Hartnett

  Hope, Believe, Love Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Kevin O'Leary

  School, Second Chance, Gone

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

  2 Chainz

  Second Chance, Stories, Whole

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Relationship, Children, Parenting

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• I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

  Joel Osteen

  Mean, Second Chance, Needs

  "Interview With Joel and Victoria Osteen". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 22, 2006.

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• I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

  El DeBarge

  Second Chance, World, Want

  "'Rhythm of the Night' singer El DeBarge arrested for possession for sale of narcotics: Most troubled '80s star?". www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.

  Richard DeVos

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Positive Thinking

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• "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Why Not Try God?". "St. Petersburg Times" Newspaper, sect. 2, (p. 3), January 25, 1936.

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• there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

  Raymond Carver

  Long, Chance, Enough

  Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.253, Vintage

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• I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

  Donald Sutherland

  Dirty, Play, Careers

  "Total recall" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  Bill Wyman

  Song, Frustrated, Albums

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• There's players like myself in the league who deserve to make the All-Star team and aren't given a chance. I've put up numbers, as good if not better than players that are making the team.

  Jeff Cunningham

  Stars, Team, Player

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