Second Chance Quotes

• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Chance, Offers, Greatest Gifts

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• Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.

  Jesse Lacey

  Way, Moments, Being Human

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Time, Firsts

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

  El DeBarge

  World, Want, Given A Chance

  "'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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• Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  "Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Will Give You The Fire To Finish The Day Right" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2015.

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• If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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

  Rachel Griffiths

  Dream, Comeback, Failing

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

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• 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

  Land, America, Path

  "Bush: the highlights", www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2004.

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• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Basketball, Educational

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• The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Today, Tomorrow

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• Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Opportunity

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• Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Heart, Hands

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• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

  Alfred Adler

  Trust, Work, Commitment

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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, Give Me A Chance, Given

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• Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Nature

  Albert Camus (2012). “Caligula and Three Other Plays”, p.104, Vintage

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• To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspiring, Photography, Events

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Courage, Mistake

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• I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Careers

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

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• The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

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• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Opportunity, Giving, Temptation

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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