CURATED COLLECTION

Second Chances in Life

Not everyone gets one — and the ones who do often didn't recognize it until it was almost gone.

54 quotes found

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Another dawn, another darkness.

—Faiz Ahmad FaizScholar & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

—Victor HugoPoet, Novelist & Dramatist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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We are new, brave, and the dawn is ours.

—Endre AdyPoet & Journalist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The beautiful ones are not yet born.

—Ayi Kwei ArmahNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Children are the inverse of history. They're the future.

—Valeria LuiselliAuthor & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Latin America

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My heart is a seed, waiting to bloom in another land.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Change is difficult and change is what also creates opportunity.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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With malice toward none, with charity for all.

—Abraham LincolnPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I always say, the future is what we make of it.

—Graça MachelPolitician

Digital Age ERA • Southern Africa

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Humanity is a multi‑planet species. That’s the future I want to believe in.

—Elon MuskEntrepreneur & Engineer

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

—Thomas JeffersonPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.

—Arundhati RoyAuthor & Activist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change.

—Mary McLeod BethuneScholar & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • North America

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We need a radical imagination to envision a different world.

—Saidiya HartmanScholar & Author

Digital Age ERA • North America

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If you want to solve climate change, you need innovation.

—Bill GatesEntrepreneur & Philanthropist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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