Second Chance Quotes

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
- Paulo Coelho

God always offers us a second chance in life.
- Paulo Coelho

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.
- Jodi Picoult

When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.
- Shaun Alexander

Will. It doesn't matter--"
"Nothing matters more!" His voice grew in strength. "I know that if you hate me it is because I forced you to. I know that you have no reason to give me a second chance to be regarded by you in a different light. But I am begging you for that chance. I will do anything. Anything.
- Cassandra Clare

After all, how often do we get a second chance?
- Jay Asher

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.
- Phillipa Ashley

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

You have been given a second chance to start your life over. You can't throw this opportunity away. If you do you will be a colossal fool. If you get the chance to do something and don't do it then you'll simply live with regret. That's a worse situation than trying something daring and maybe not succeeding. At least you tried. Isn't that what you want to show your kids?
- Lorena Bathey

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
- Orlando A Battista

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
- Desmond Tutu

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

Smartass Disciple: Master, why there was no second chance in garden of eden?
Master of Stupidity: Of course. Perhaps, human can only enjoy one-time virginity.
- Toba Beta

Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?
Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.
- Toba Beta

I don't buy idea of second chance.
With hope we make a lot of chances.
- Toba Beta

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

A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home
- Nicholas Sparks

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.
- George W Bush

No matter what the
circumstances. I am more like most men in this regard. No second chances. It's
not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I'm a champion
grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I
wanted to.
- Emily Giffin

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.'
- Michael N Castle

Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?
- Joseph Conrad

No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
- Ry Cooder

Doesn't just about everybody disappoint their parents? They say all they want is for us to be happy, but what they really want is for us to be their do-over. Their second chance at life.
- Eileen Cook

Tomorrow was my second chance to make things right but it never came. I'm sorry I never treasured the time we had for those regrets I take the blame. You gave everything you had. I took without giving back." Sed paused in his song, feeling ridiculous for singing it to her while they made love.
"Baby, you realize this song is about Trey's dead dog, don't you?
- Olivia Cunning

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

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.
- Artur Davis

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.
- Tiffanie Debartolo

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

A second chancethat's the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the darkwe do what we canwe give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
- Henry James

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.
- David Ebershoff

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.
- Richard Ernst

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

You're mine,
Isabeau. You'll always be mine. Make no mistake about it. Whether you choose to forgive me and give
us a second chance, or you don't, you'll be my only.
- Christine Feehan

With writing, we have second chances.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in manners that are interesting, not only melancholy. With writing, we have second chances.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.
- Jamie Ford

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.
- Tracey Gold

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

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.
- Karen White

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

If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.
We'd shut down hunger.
We'd shut down loneliness.
We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.
- Ron Hall

It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.
- Lisi Harrison

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.
- Glenn Hoddle

If love were a dolphin with wings and a unicorn's horn, being ridden by a blind leprechaun dressed like Rasputin, would you believe in second chances for love at first sight?
- Jarod Kintz

...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.
- Daniel Keyes

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
- Sue Monk Kidd

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.
- Dean Koontz

A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
- C S Lewis

Whatever problems we had back then don't exist anymore. It's why we have this second chance, and we can't throw it away. Besides, you were the one who said we're not exactly the same as we were back then. If we're not the same, then things can turn out differently.
- Michelle Madow

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
- Daphne Du Maurier

There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.
- Daphne Du Maurier

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
- Brandy Norwood

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

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.
- Kaya Mclaren

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

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
- Kate Morton

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

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.
- Petra Nemcova

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

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
- Joel Osteen

When people try to take their own lives, they often don't want to be brought back. When you catch them in time, as is this case, they have a second chance. But they have to want that chance. You see Mrs. Whitman, I have no idea why your daughter did this to herself, but she seems to have no will to live.
- Francine Pascal

I have a second chance on life.
- Katy Perry

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...
- Thomas Pynchon

I'm sorry you don't want to know me anymore. I will spend the rest of my life regretting the fact that I wasted my second chance to know you. And I will always be conscious of your absence.- Gabriel to Julia.
- Sylvain Reynard

Grace isn't something we deserve, Gabriel," Julia said softly. "It comes from love. And God wraps the world in second chances and sticky little leaves and mercy, even though some people don't want them.
- Sylvain Reynard

In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan squandered however many second chances he gave him. Gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year.
- Maggie Stiefvater

No second chance?"
A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
- Nora Roberts

I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left."
"You didn't give me up," she tossed back. "You never wanted me."
"I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you." He dragged her painfully to her toes. "I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.
- Nora Roberts

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.
- John Rowland

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

you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them.
- Rebecca Serle

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
- Jeanette Winterson

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

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

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
- Niki Taylor

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
- Paul Theroux

What are you thinking about?" I ask.
"You. Then, and now. How beautiful you
were back then, and how even more beautiful you are now. How I wish I'd seen you through all those years, and how I'm counting myself as one lucky bastard that I got a second chance to have you in my life ... and that you're crazy enough to be mine.
- Samantha Towle

Because in most cases, I believe that people deserve a second chance. And because I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd stood by and let them both die souless, when I could have helped.
- Rachel Vincent

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
- Mae West