Quotes About Opportunity

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

And this is the moment where I went wrong. This is the gut-churning, if-only instant. If I could go back in time, that's the moment I would march up to myself and say severely, Poppy, priorities . But you don't realize, do you? The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

The moment happens, and you make your crucial mistake, and then it's gone and the chance to do anything about it is blown away.

So I'm biding my time, like a surfer waiting for a wave. I'm pretty good at surfing, as it happens, and I know the wave will come. When the moment is right, I'll get Demeter's attention. She'll look at my stuff, everything will click, and I'll start riding my life. Not paddling, paddling, paddling, like I am right now.

You can't go back in time and do life a different way.

I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I'm twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. There's no rush, I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again.

The thing with giving up is you never know whether you could have done the job.

You should always be thinking: This is OK…but what else could I be doing?

Maybe sometimes in life you just miss your chance

There's always a blip! There's always a crisis! Every year you put off doing anything fun—

Maybe sometimes in life you get another chance. Maybe you can go back. Right back to... how it was in the beginning.

Double advantage points! I mean, it's just free money, isn't it?

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Now is no time to delay. This is the edge of action.

Pray for life, my children, live where you are free to grow and season

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.