Quotes About Opportunity

Our patterns and stories, no matter how far back they go, can be surrendered and rewritten. We can walk away from them in any moment. Every choice can be change and every moment is a blank slate. The way things have been does not have to be the way they continue to be.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.

Earth is indeed a crossroads in our galaxy.

He used to tell me when Mr. Boswell asked Dr. Johnson which was the greatest of the virtues, he answered unhesitatingly, 'Courage,' and when Mr. Boswell asked him why, he said, 'Because, sir, without courage, one will have little opportunity to practice the other virtues.

Ah, medals," put in Monty disparagingly. "Medals are given to men who happen to be in the right place at the right time, that is all.

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

I find myself in the unusual position of accepting an invitation before it has been extended.

Her husband was sent to boarding school at an early age and though deprived of his family's presence, their name was always ahead of him, opening every door.

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Yes,' he says. 'It's great. Very… quiet.' This makes her laugh. 'What about your job?' 'I need to make some new contacts up here, but yes –that's looking good.' 'What is it you do again?' There is a pause while he waits to turn into the car park and she thinks maybe he wasn't listening, but then he says, 'It's like a therapy business. Setting up franchises, that kind of thing. Facilitation.

bright New York City students with a scientific bent; won a full scholarship to Cornell University; and ended up

Will ye come with me?" he whispered. And she answered without hesitation. "Yes, please.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen.

not to conclude that the worst thing to happen to Michael Devlin was also the best thing to happen to them.

is a gift to be able to make mistakes, find solutions, and move forward in life—a gift not to be wasted.

if there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that.

Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we've been given, the door will open.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.