Everything Quotes

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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

Every day I look as a chance to get better and I try to get better for the next day.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

I love my fans, so when I get the chance to interact with them, it's beautiful.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.

If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don't have it, you've got no chance.

It's so different when you get a second chance to come back out and do your thing - you're more humble, you appreciate it more, you know what not to do this second time around.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

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.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

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

I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

I believe, in life, you always get a second chance.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.