40 Chances Quotes & Sayings

I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semi-valid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you're lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but second and third chances, like second and third marriages, can be dicey propositions, and they don't come with guarantees ... The question then is this: How does a person keep from living the wrong life? — Richard Russo

Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker. — Howard Graham Buffett

Make your worst day is the best day in your life,because surely there's something missing within our self without it,so we can be who we are now ,the wiser and the mature one — Faiz Triumph

When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated ... The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value. — Ezekiel Emanuel

When you feel yourself drawn to do or try something, don't overthink it. — Howard Buffett

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out. — Richard Branson

I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest. — John Engler

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. — Ida Tarbell

I try not to overeat (which is my biggest problem), and I find that when I'm eating quality foods from good sources, I don't need to overeat to feel satisfied. I cook with healthy oils (olive, coconut) and stay away as much as possible from overly processed foods. When I do indulge, I enjoy it. For that moment. And then I balance it with exercise. — Adam Rodriguez

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. — Oliver Hudson

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it. — Jack Kelly

You gain power by pretending to be weak. — Chuck Palahniuk

If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need. — Annie Lennox

I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex. — Frederick Lenz

Consciousness is clear; it reflects colors of the vessel. — Debasish Mridha

Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs. — Howard Graham Buffett

All of us make mistakes because of youth or ignorance or both. We can't do much about youth, but we can do something about ignorance. — Howard Buffett

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. — Al Pacino

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born. — Daniel Woodrell

Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him. — Joyce Meyer

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure. — Polly Berrien Berends