Quotes About Opportunity

I will always know what life can take, but I am ready to see what it can give.

When we are faced with a challenge, it is very easy to be mad or upset. But when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to effect change in a way that otherwise we would not be able to.

And if such a gift could come to him at such a time, then anything—dear girl from Rockford dressed up for her meeting, rushing above the Rock River—he opened his eyes, and yes, there it was, the perfect knowledge: Anything was possible for anyone.

I have never fully understood the whole class business in America, though, because I came from the very bottom of it, and when that happens it never really leaves you. I mean I have never really gotten over it, my beginnings, the poverty, I guess is what I mean.

it was as though huge windows above her had been smashed—the way the firemen must have smashed the windows of her childhood home— and now, here above her and around her, was the whole wide world right there, available to her once again.

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

The trouble with 'if only' is that it doesn't change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead of forward. It wastes time. In the end, if you let it become a habit, it can become a real roadblock – an excuse for not trying anymore.

Wilson. He was convinced he was "speaking for the silent mass of mankind everywhere who have as yet had no place or opportunity to speak their real hearts out concerning the death and ruin they see to have come already upon the persons and the homes they hold most dear." So, having spoken for mankind, Wilson left the podium.

ornery enough that they will not stay where the rule was laid down. In that I believe you will find the greatest hope for America's future. —William S. Knudsen

Een mens kan nou eenmaal niet zomaar uit- en overstappen. Als er onderweg al plekken zijn waar je misschien nog een afsprong had durven wagen, ben je er al voorbij voordat je het doorhebt. Bovendien, waarheen kan een mens anders kijken dan vooruit.

Or. A golden word: "Or." Opportunities, rebirths, other roads.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take place will ever take place.

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas.

Una biblioteca es un lugar donde hallar lo conveniente en el momento oportuno.

Cuanto más poder se alcanza, más limitada es la ocasión de ejercerlo. Gaspar de Guzmán, conde de Olivares

Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.

Ahí está la gracia, en jugársela con lo que hay… ¿Qué mexicano no ha puesto en su vida un peso al albur?

I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy." "Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead.

So take advantage of this human boat. Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

You will never learn to steal a car unless you leave keys inside..!

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.