Gloria Estefan Quotes

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.

A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

If you do not take advantage of your chances, you can pay for it.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

You couldn't changed history. But you could get it right to start with. Do something differently the FIRST time around. This whole business with seeking Slytherin's secrets... seemed an awful lot like the sort of thing where, years later, you would look back and say, 'And THAT was where it all started to go wrong.' And he would wish desperately for the ability to fall back through time and make a different choice. Wish granted. Now what?

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Decisions determine destiny.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.