Opportunity for Change Quotes

If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.

It's never too late to change your luck

It doesn't matter what you've done in the past - what matters are the choices you make right now. God gives you the chance to start over with every breath.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

I love a character that gives me a chance to grow and do something different.

Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

I do think that everybody deserves a second chance.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

You can't control where you were born, the family you were born into, what you look like; you can't control any of those circumstances. The only thing you can control is how you react.

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.