Chances In Life Quotes - Page 2

• I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Real, Kids

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• Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Time, Men, Chance

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• What I know is, you have chance in life--of surviving it--if you tolerate loss well; manage not to be a cynic through it all; to subordinate, as Ruskin implied, to keep proportion, to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good, even if admittedly good is often not simple to find.

  Richard Ford

  Loss, Simple, Chance

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.511, A&C Black

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• Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

  Warren Buffett

  Chance, Given, Admire

  Speech at Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, 2001.

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• I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood.

  George Eastman

  Children, Taken, Childhood

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• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Second Chance, Kicking, Want

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• My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

  Julian Castro

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Julian Castro's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Fields, Damage

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success For Parents: Guiding your Children to success and Fulfilment”, p.28, Random House

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• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there is gratitude and humility; there is a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance in life that maybe, you did or did not deserve.

  Pat Summerall

  Gratitude, Blessed, Humble

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