Top 100 First Chance Quotes
#1. Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance
is given.
Jay Long
#2. This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place ... and the world waits while she powders her nose.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#3. A second chance is not a repeat of the first chance. A second chance is a moving forward to something new.
Henry Cloud
#4. All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. You've been given a second chance at true love. Few of us are rarely given even a first chance. If you ruin this, you will be a bigger fool than I could ever imagine. This time when he leaves you, it really will be your fault.
Kathryn Smith
#6. You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.
Nas
#7. Beware!" Piper yelled at the crowd. "Every man in this palace is your enemy. Each one will stab you in the back at the first chance!
Rick Riordan
#8. I tug at the ends of her sweater near her wrist, and her fingers twist up in defense. Nope. Not having it. First chance I get, I'm throwing every long-sleeved item in the trash and burning it with a single match and a gallon of gas.
Katie McGarry
#9. I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
J. R. Martinez
#10. If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.
Rachel E. Carter
#11. What was your secret?"
That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance
Nora Roberts
#12. I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.
Alex Ferguson
#13. No, that isn't it, Blaire, and you know it. I got too close, made you feel something real for once, and so the first chance you got, you ran." "Don't
Mia Asher
#14. Baby, the first chance I get, I'm going to fuck the shit out of you," I growled.
She smiled coyly, her eyes twinkling. "I think it's called making love now."
"Then I'm fucking making love the shit out of you.
Karina Halle
#15. Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.
Tony Bishop
#16. Sometimes people just need a second chance because sometimes we are not ready when fate hands us the first chance"--Liv
Kerry Heavens
#17. What was sureness and certainty? I used to hold on to certainty like a light inside me, hoping it would chase out the dark unknown. But certainty was a phantom strung together on hopes. It would lead you astray at the first chance.
Roshani Chokshi
#18. It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.
Christopher Paolini
#19. There was no way I was knocking on his door when I made my pizza or beans. No way in hell. In fact, I was moving the first chance I could get.
Kristen Ashley
#20. There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
Kate Smith
#21. The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
Merle Haggard
#22. This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#23. The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.
Charlie Munger
#24. I grew up in the Bay Area until 1976, then I pretty much went all the way through primary and high school on Bainbridge, though like anybody who grows up on an island, I ran the first chance I got.
Jonathan Evison
#25. 'School Daze' was one of the highlights of my life because it was the first chance I had to act on screen. I would have been happy if that had been it, because I proved that I could do it.
Bill Nunn
#26. The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#27. Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you.
Joseph Boyden
#28. You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
Marilyn Monroe
#29. It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.
Alex Berenson
#30. Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
Lil' Wayne
#31. From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.
Emile Zola
#32. I want to go slow, baby, I really do," he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to this first time."
"Thank heavens.
Robin Bielman
#33. You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.
Donna Kauffman
#34. I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.
Janet Evanovich
#35. The elector is young and ambitious, but he is not his father. He wants to fight for you, just as I fight for you, but first you need to give him that chance. And if you put your might behind him and lift him up, he will lift us up.
Marie Lu
#36. Hey, just be grateful I'm old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian) Are you serious? (Channon) They're not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. I'm glad that when I was on the sidewalk on the square in town with you and Casey all those years ago, I decided for the first time in my life not to play it safe."
"I'm glad too, Ivey, seriously fuckin' glad you took a chance on me.
Kristen Ashley
#38. The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
Tony Blair
#39. Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time
you don't get a second chance!
Sergei Bongart
#40. I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
Ian McKellen
#41. If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
James D. Watson
#43. I want a more difficult life, that's all. What I really want is a first-rate life. I may not get it, but the only chance I have lies in getting out of a second-rate life. I may fail completely, but I do want to try. It's to do with me, not you; so don't worry.
Julian Barnes
#44. There are two word in my world first love the strongest and second chance quotes.
Rohit Dhariwal
#45. You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.
David Ogilvy
#46. We've been given a second chance. Some people never even get a first. Do you know how lucky we are?
Felice Stevens
#47. Upon first glance I felt a sense of familiarity with you. Like we had been down this road a thousand times before, why I felt this with a complete stranger I am yet to know but I trust further down the road our chance meeting will make perfect sense.
Nikki Rowe
#48. Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.
Blake Griffin
#49. Fun! You think I have just been having fun with you? I am insane in love with you, Lilah! I have been since the first night. Remember the night I carried you all the way home, just so you could not meet anyone else before I had the chance to make you mine?
Anna Bloom
#50. Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.
Tracy Austin
#51. 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
#52. There can be second chances. But maybe it's also true that things can never be the same, and that you have to decide whether the second chance lives up to the first.
Marie Rutkoski
#53. I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.
Carl Hubbell
#54. There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#55. I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.
Kelly Lynch
#56. I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.
Donnie Wahlberg
#57. First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson
#58. One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.
Lily Rabe
#59. I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
Mark Kozelek
#60. Gretchen," Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. "I'm going to kiss you."
He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.
Her mouth twisted with amusement. "Not if I kiss you first.
Aria Kane
#62. How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ...
Peter Esterhazy
#63. Cousin-screwing. It is not totally safe. It raises the risk of birth defects slightly. But I was reading in a book for history that there's, like, a 99.9999 percent chance that at least one of your great-great-great-grandparents married first cousin.
John Green
#64. At some point I'm going to learn that regret hurts a lot worse than never having done something in the first place and missing the chance forever.
Lynn Red
#65. Mrs Kerslake:" but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-?"
Simon Kerslake: "Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term
Mark Twain
#66. In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
Nancy Astor
#67. If this was her chance to decide who she was, who she wanted to be, then the first decision was an easy one. She would never be like Queen Levana.
Marissa Meyer
#68. I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
Dwight Gooden
#69. Tomorrow morning. Brand new chance. The first day of whatever life you want to have for yourself." Rose called after me, "Wake up wisely.
Nicole Williams
#70. For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.
Michael Moore
#71. If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.
Nigel Worthington
#72. I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first. -Marcus Hardy
Abbi Glines
#73. As you grow older, Michael, you'll learn an important lesson - that most people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.
Richard Paul Evans
#74. The chance had come - it was an extraordinary one - on the day she first met Densher; and it was to the girl's lasting honour that she knew on the spot what she was in the presence of.
Henry James
#75. In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.
Norm Sloan
#76. My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.
Christina Baker Kline
#77. For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first
Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton
#78. Jon had seen the lie immediately for what it was: diplomacy. He had a feeling that, given the chance, Tom would hold him close every night. Instead, the first mate chose to distance himself so as not to interfere with the captain's affection for Jon. A sacrifice.
Bey Deckard
#79. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.
Patrick Lencioni
#80. Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable."
Katherine Paterson
#81. I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren't willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place - so you can share the blame.
Hal Riney
#82. I first tried a novel when I was 14. First finished one when I was 16. First started working on stuff that had a chance of being salable in my early 20s, then didn't write much fiction at all because I was in grad school.
Harry Turtledove
#83. My first intervention is to say, when your baby is born, just don't jump on your kid at night," Cohen says, "Give your baby a chance to self-soothe, don't automatically respond, even from birth.
Pamela Druckerman
#84. After a while, you're staying mad just to justify an old mistake. Then it's just a game. Two people staring away, refusing to look back over their shoulders, afraid to be the first one to take that chance.
Hugh Howey
#85. Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer.
Patrick Modiano
#86. She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn't planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.
Tamara Hoffa
#87. They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance.
Emily Thorne
#88. Alice must already have known, even back then, when she first saw Fortune, when she was, what, nine or ten, that she would try and hitch a lift on the wheel, too, as soon as she possibly could. She must already have been thinking out how. But she couldn't have guessed how soon her chance would come.
Vanora Bennett
#89. defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time
Steve McConnell
#90. I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
Robert A. Heinlein
#91. People are sometimes really different from what you first think. You have to give them a chance.
Marianne De Pierres
#92. This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night'€s State of the Union address could be the first one in history deliberately designed solely to generate a Pavlovian rage response in members of the opposing party.
John Podhoretz
#93. And if you share that humiliation, there's the chance the person will use it against you at the first opportunity. Or they'll cut you out of their life entirely. So how do you ever trust someone? Without giving them the power to destroy you?
Lorelei James
#94. Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.
C. JoyBell C.
#95. Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.
Clarence Page
#96. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
Anne Rice
#97. I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.
Tamar Myers
#98. And that was how the Selection did its first act in my favor: if I had her here, at least I had the chance to try.
Kiera Cass
#99. It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
Sylvia Plath
#100. Life is just too much for me. I've been confused right from the day I was born ... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast ... We're not really prepared ... "
"What did you want ... A chance to warm up first?
Charles M. Schulz
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