Life Quotes

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

~ Howard Graham Buffett

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

~ Michelle Obama

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

~ Bear Grylls

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

I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.

~ Louie Anderson

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

~ Joel Burns

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

~ Ai Weiwei

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

~ Walter Scott

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

~ Kevin Costner

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

~ Corazon Aquino

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

~ Daniel Day-Lewis

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

~ Gene Robinson

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

~ Andrew Gross

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

~ Don Rickles

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

~ Andrea Bocelli

Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

~ Mary Quant

I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.

~ Mark Ruffalo

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

~ Amy Purdy

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

~ Dwyane Wade

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

~ Tiger Woods

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

~ Richard Burton

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

~ Michael Jordan

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

~ Marjane Satrapi

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

~ Cynthia Ozick

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

~ John Burnside

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

~ Future

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

~ Jacques Derrida

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

~ Tracy Chapman

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

~ Denis Leary

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

~ Pauline Hanson

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.

~ John Perez

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

~ Patrick Rothfuss