Quotes About Chances

Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Or...perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

Damn shame to have to go to heaven and tell Saint Peter you forgot to live while you had the chance.

ever do such a thing. Which I'm not saying is wrong, but we know we take risks, too. Maybe we even blame them more because we want to pretend it never could have happened to us. But of course it could have. We make life-and-death decisions every day. The odds are just really good on most of them. But if something goes wrong, we're still responsible. And we don't get to do it over, either.

Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three.....and so on. Nesta

How many walks down the stairs will I regret not having made?

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

The concern is not that there are many people and few opportunities. It is, there are many opportunities but there are few people who seize them.

Every "Now-moment" is an opportunity to change not only the Future but also the Past.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

...bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.

If you don't give yourself permission to create a new world, chances are nobody else will.

Have the confidence to focus on uncharted territory. Take chances.

I've been arrested a few times. The most high-profile instance was when protesting at the fracking site in Balcombe. It's an industry which will undermine our chances of tackling climate change.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

This is not that time of a cinema where you get 10 to 15 chances. You only get two to three chances, and if you do something nice in that, then it is great. Otherwise, people are very unforgiving.

I love first chances, but unfortunately, first chances don't always work out for everyone, and I'm a perfect example of that.

Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

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

Sport, like life, hardly gives you second chances, certainly not in a pandemic era.

Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.