F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

A lot of people don't get second chances.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

Life is short and progress is slow.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

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.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.