Top 87 You Get One Chance Quotes
#2. Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
Katherine Jenkins
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. 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
#8. I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.
Chad Michael Murray
#9. The way I see it, you have to take every chance you get because there may not be another one. You have to learn from your mistakes because nobody's perfect. You have to laugh, love & live every day as if it's your last.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#10. 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
#11. The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.
Tina Fey
#12. You only get one chance at pure love, otherwise, the rest will be a battle.
Kathleen Harp
#13. Something to remember ... You only get one chance to grow and live, so make it Beautiful!
Sierra Lawrimore
#14. You know, for all your talk, you're kind of a good guy yourself."
"Wrong. I'm the guy that stays alive. (...) and the one you leave behind if you get the chance to escape. You understand?
Kat Falls
#15. God is never in the wrong when He and one of His children are separated; yet He devises ways so that the banished person may not remain estranged from Him. Never underestimate the significance of timing when it comes to mending. You may not get another chance.
Beth Moore
#16. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
Nicole Green
#17. You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?
Dax Shepard
#18. You don't get one chance at life but many over one lifetime.
Elize Amornette
#19. It was just one night of drinking and chance. I'd known it at the moment I met him, which was surely why I was enchanted in the first place. Enchantment means to want something and also to know, somewhere inside yourself, not an obvious place, that you aren't going to get it.
Rachel Kushner
#20. For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.
Tom Cavanagh
#21. 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
#22. Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.
Lewis Hamilton
#23. 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
#24. I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
Hunter S. Thompson
#25. You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.
Harvey MacKay
#26. Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings.
Shin Towada
#27. The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
Mark Sanchez
#28. ....you only get one chance at sharing a soul, but that once was enough if it was the right soul.
Heather R. Blair
#29. Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
Lil' Wayne
#30. Kick hard when you have the chance. Aim for parts that hurt. Hope you get lucky and his surprise shocks him into being stupid. Then knock him out with the shovel if you've got one handy. If not, go find the shovel." - Nora
Timandra Whitecastle
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.
Wendy Mass
#35. The network wants you to make a thing that's just a stand-alone episode, so you never get any character or continuity. This is one of the ways in which television can actually be good, and even better than the movies, because it gives you a chance to tell a long story.
Billy Campbell
#36. *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
#37. You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.
Jeremy Irvine
#38. You should be more careful, you know."
"Careful?" she managed to croak. "You're the one who knocked me over."
"I couldn't resist," he said, and he actually had the nerve to wink at her. "It's not often I get the chance to put my hands on such a beautiful woman.
Fiona Paul
#39. You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. Henry
#40. 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
#41. ...you rarely get more than one chance in this world.
Stephen King
#42. Live your dreams, you only get one chance!
B.M. O'Brien
#43. So few people get to truly steer their course the way you have the chance to now. And the question before you is - will you strive to be normal and live an ordinary life? Or will you do what no one else can do - and be more?
Robert J. Crane
#44. If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
Glenn Frey
#45. The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.
Barry Nelson
#46. What if opportunity comes and you aren't prepared? If you don't prepare yourself for opportunity, one thing is certain, you won't win even when you get the chance. You must recognize the power of being prepared.
Marshall Sylver
#47. You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?
Daniel Clowes
#48. You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.
Dohee
#49. It's about second chances, Neil. Second, third, fourth, whatever, as long as you get at least one more than what anyone else wanted to give you.
Nora Sakavic
#50. Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#51. We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs
#52. You, Mad Dog, are exactly what I came here to protect her from. But you know what? We're all broken some way or another. Even with your epic fuckup, you just might be exactly what she needs. You get one more chance
Jamie McGuire
#53. It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.
John Anderson
#54. If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.
Nigel Worthington
#55. I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. "Here," I said. "If you get the chance, make like Buffy.
Jim Butcher
#56. And when you graduate and get a job and find the one woman who finally stays - who you want to stay - she won't care that there's not a chance in hell you'll ever figure her out.
Melissa Foster
#57. #1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#58. This ain't the heartbreak hotel even though I know it well.
Those no shows should you tell in the way you hold yourself.
Don't you fret should you get another cancellation, give me a chance and I'll make a permanent reservation.
In your heart in your,
I can tell you fit one more
The Wanted
#59. That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
Violet Cross
#60. The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
Nick Cave
#61. All he wanted to do was shove home and stay there until neither one of them could move, but he found himself saying, "Last chance. You sure about this?" If she had any doubts, now was the time to call the whole thing off. "Oh no. You don't get to take the goddamn noble route now.
Katee Robert
#62. When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.
Mark Lanegan
#63. I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.
Andre Holland
#64. Your one and possibly only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you'll ask, 'Why are bats furry?
Kelley Armstrong
#65. When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.
Betty Wright
#66. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.
Julien Smith
#67. You may only get one chance at something ... and that requires confidence in your ability.
Joe Teti
#68. Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me.
Sarah Ockler
#69. You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
Eminem
#70. That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!
Terry Pratchett
#71. If you're going to give him a second chance, I should get one, too.
Sylvia Day
#72. You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.
Tony Romo
#73. When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.
Gaelen Foley
#74. It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
Sarah Dessen
#75. You only get one chance to fall in love with your heart still whole.
Lang Leav
#76. You only get one chance of an England debut.
Alan Shearer
#77. We all get one chance, as far as we know, to write our life's story. Make today the day that you proactively and consciously decided to write the story you are proud of! The
Hal Elrod
#78. You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Bear Grylls
#79. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.
Jon Lester
#81. If you are lucky, one day you'll get the chance to have your life defined by how much you loved and were loved by someone else.
Iain S. Thomas
#82. Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!
Thomas Berry
#83. There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.
Suzanne Collins
#84. You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.
L.M. Fields
#85. I don't want anyone to ever put himself or herself in a box of, "I lost my second chance!" Because life brings you ebbs and flows, and if you miss out on this second chance, guess what, you're going to get another one if you decide that you're ready to have one.
Bob Harper
#86. Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, 'Don't risk it.' Because it's only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.
Sabrina Jeffries
#87. I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.
Tara Brown
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