Quotes About Opportunity

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor.

I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one time in their lives. The fisherman held a rod in his hand and said yes and the painter held a brush in his hand and said yes and sometimes I hold a beer in my hand and say yes.

the advantage of having an unexpected opportunity to successfully grieve our early-life losses; to enjoy healthy relationships; to develop an unshakable sense of self-esteem; to find our unique purposes in life; to have peace about our adoption experiences; to find our true identities...now I am alive...fully alive and on the cutting edge of my life's journey. What better place could one be?

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it.

To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.

Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it yours. (Acheron)

We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)

The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have." – Choo Co La Tah "What are you? A fortune cookie writer?" – Abigail

No destiny is set by any birth. no matter how lowly or how high. All creatures have the right and ability to choose who and what they become... Be it good or evil.

Death is a doorway,think before you knock it

We're here with a special offer for you, Mr. Steele. A once-in-a-lifetime type of opportunity. (Joe) Oh, wait, I've seen this movie. I do a job for you, and you let me go. So who am I? I can't be Eddie Murphy, wrong ethnicity. I'm not bald, so I can't be Vin Diesel. So where does that leave me? (Steele)

Death is a doorway. Think before you knock on it.'

Aren't you the one who always says that sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right?" "I also say that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Wow. Sumi sat back in total stupor. So no one had ever climbed aboard that giant piece of sexy male and taken him for a ride. Unbelievable. Who in their right mind would bypass that opportunity? She didn't know who this Dariana was, but the female had to be the dumbest cow ever bred. It

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.