Top 100 Quotes About One Chance
#1. A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
William Faulkner
#2. Youngsters have got to stop thinking about becoming the next Zuckerberg. It's a trillion-to-one chance. What they need is mater and pater to say, 'Get a job, son.'
Alan Sugar
#3. ....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.
Heather R. Blair
#4. Within two years, they would be attacking us. The emperor has seen what we can do and he will not make the same mistakes again. One chance we have made for ourselves, Khasar. You cannot wound a bear and run. It will chase you down.
Conn Iggulden
#5. You have one chance in life to make it something special. Why would you waste it on mediocrity? Safe and easy is for pussies. Be amazing and different. Be grateful for the uniqueness in you.
Tara Brown
#6. One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.
Tonny K. Brown
#7. Sometimes we have one chance, to ride that wave, one opportunity to jump on, take a deep breath and feel the rush of adrenaline. . . don't miss your chance.
Heidi Reagan
#8. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
David Bailey
#10. Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.
V.C. Andrews
#11. You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
Paul Keating
#12. Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
Tara Lipinski
#13. In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
Kara Hayward
#14. I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.
Chelsea Kane
#16. We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane.
Jessica Edouard
#17. Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety's off and I put on her. Oh stick 'em up, stick 'em up. Ready to shoot.
Nicki Minaj
#18. -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million.
J.D. Salinger
#19. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.
Charlie Munger
#20. *You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. What kind of person gives sex one chance and decides it's not for them?" "This kind."
Audrey Bell
#22. Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.
Tim McIlrath
#23. The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it'll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.
Ronda Rousey
#24. ...you rarely get more than one chance in this world.
Stephen King
#25. Live your dreams, you only get one chance!
B.M. O'Brien
#26. I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this ... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
Patrick Kane
#27. If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
Lindsey Vonn
#28. I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.
Khaled Hosseini
#29. Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.
Pat Conroy
#30. I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.
Rupert Grint
#31. One chance can make the rest of your career.
Starsmith
#32. Work hard ... have fun ... be nice ... play fair ... dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win.
Robert Herjavec
#33. The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.
Ronald Fisher
#34. You only get one chance at this circus called life. Don't sit in the crowd watchin' it happen. You jump right in and be the ringleader. That's where you find your fire.
Kim Holden
#35. But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.
Claudia Gray
#36. You only get one chance at pure love, otherwise, the rest will be a battle.
Kathleen Harp
#37. Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
Neil Gaiman
#38. One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.
John Lasseter
#39. Something to remember ... You only get one chance to grow and live, so make it Beautiful!
Sierra Lawrimore
#40. You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?
Dax Shepard
#41. I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!
Terry Pratchett
#43. Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
Robert Breault
#44. A person rarely gets just one chance at anything. There are second chances everywhere, if you know where to look for them.
Lauren Miller
#45. Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.
Jack London
#46. You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
Elize Amornette
#47. You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it ... take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!
Danell Lynn
#48. Do you love me?"
His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool's chance at that
G.S. Jennsen
#49. I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#50. Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice.
Deyth Banger
#51. Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
James D. Watson
#52. His eyes meet mine and one brow rises in that holy mother of hell-sexy way, then he mutters, You've got one chance to make my mouth water.
M. Leighton
#53. With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
Johnny Vegas
#54. Journalists were among those who thought that way. Clarke Beach, for example, in a September 6 article for the local newspaper, the Star-Bulletin, wrote, "A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful.
Donald Stratton
#56. The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
William Strunk Jr.
#57. Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.
Lauren Kate
#58. She was leader of this little crew and she'd go first. Always. When she took on new members, she gave them one chance to get that right. If the words, but you're a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.
Laken Cane
#59. We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!
Ray Lewis
#60. We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.
Norhafsah Hamid
#61. My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.
Jennifer Grant
#63. You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that
it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.
Michelle Diener
#64. You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
Harvey MacKay
#65. You may only get one chance at something ... and that requires confidence in your ability.
Joe Teti
#66. The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.
Ken Liu
#67. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.
Ronald Fisher
#68. You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.
Karen Kingsbury
#69. We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.
Judith Thurman
#70. I had never been able to believe that God would give us poor frail humans only one chance at making it
that we would be assigned to some kind of hell because we failed during one experience of mortal life ... So the concepts of karma and reincarnation made logical sense to me.
Jane Goodall
#71. Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.
Derek Sivers
#72. Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job ... and you better do it well!
Christine Lahti
#73. They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.
Simon Holt
#74. One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Stephen Burt
#75. #1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#76. This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.
Sarah Dessen
#77. I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.
Helen Thomas
#78. How should a man caught in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and of separateness?
Erich Fromm
#79. The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
Bert McCracken
#80. [ ... ] In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.
David Gemmell
#82. A lazy writer (it's easy to hate things) or a versatile one? I don't believe in an afterlife. We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.
Lindy West
#84. Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.
Bill Walsh
#85. This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is."
"Okay."
Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?"
"No, only joking. Do your worst.
Derek Landy
#86. The Vale is not real.
It's a lie told by mothers and fathers to give their starving children a reason for the horror. There is no reason.
There is nothing but this world. It is our beginning and our end. Our one chance at joy before the dark.
Pierce Brown
#87. I'd do it a thousand times over for one chance to spend my life with you.
Amanda Gray
#89. You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.
Dohee
#90. It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.
Alex Gaskarth
#91. Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
William S. Burroughs
#92. One chance
that's what she had seen she had
one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.
Haven Kimmel
#93. One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.
Janet Morris
#94. You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
Meg Wolitzer
#95. I'm at a crossroads. I believe I only have one chance to pick the proper direction.
Destin Bays
#96. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
Anne Tyler
#97. I have one life and one chance to make it count for something ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
#98. Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to
be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable. Every replete tree was first a seed that
waited.
Hope Jahren
#99. Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.
Arnold Haultain
#100. You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
Lang Leav
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