Quotes About Opportunity

If you are not able to set priorities any other way, then getting lost may be the kick in the pants you have been waiting for.

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Every failure has an equally big upside if you are willing to stay in the game.

the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us.

At every place and time throughout your life, take frankly what that place and time can give you, and think of its limitation as advantage rather than harm. —JOHN RUSKIN

Be open to a wide range of new experiences. The more lines you have in the water, the greater the possibility of catching something remarkable.

Don't think about the problems. Think about the possibilities. This could be the beginning of something amazing.

meant to be." Nancy took one

The future is not set; there is no fate but what we make for ourselves.

have in mind?" "Well, we could have

I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.

Life might throw crap at you, but there's always a silver lining.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.