Quotes About Opportunity

Better to hope for the best and deal with the worst, than expect the worst and miss the best.

Sometimes in life it was important to stop thinking about what might have been, and think about what could be.

And I know that when you're scared, the best thing to do is throw yourself into whatever it is that scares you. Just do it. Don't think about what could go wrong. That's a surefire way of never doing anything in life.

Her mother had always emphasized that life was what you made of it, but Flora couldn't help thinking that what you made depended on the raw ingredients you were given. Even the best chef couldn't do much with moldy vegetables.

If you don't push yourself to do the things that scare you, how will you ever find out if there's more to life than the one you're living?

Bad choices are part of life, aren't they? Doesn't mean your next choice can't be a good one.

What do we want from life? We wish the responsibilities, opportunities, and realities of the new day to be more delightful and enticing than the escape of sleep.

Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.

The trick is realize that the shit that falls on you is fertilizer. -Ron Mangravite

As recently as fifty years ago my grandmother was picking cotton with bleeding fingers. I think about her all the time while I'm getting overpaid to sit at a computer, eat Chinese takeout, and think up things in my pajamas, The half century separating my fingers, which are moisturized with cucumber lotion and type eighty words per minute, and her bloody digits is an ordinary Land of Opportunity parable, and don't think I don't appreciate it.

life is crap but, every day is an experience

As Anne Frank once wrote, "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

WHEN SOME BASIC NEED IS LACKING—time, energy, money—consider yourself blessed. Your very lack is an opportunity to latch onto Me in unashamed dependence. When you begin a day with inadequate resources, you must concentrate your efforts on the present moment. This is where you are meant to live—in the present;

grip My hand tightly and look for growth opportunities. Instead of bemoaning the loss of your comfort, accept the challenge of something new.

I can bring good even out of your mistakes.

time for everything, and everything in its time.

Your very lack is an opportunity to latch onto Me in unashamed dependence.

Adverse circumstances become growth opportunities when you affirm your trust in Me no matter what.

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

AD/HD is such a full-time job that some women have never had the opportunity to stop and figure out a way of doing things differently. They haven't discovered how to change the rules, what it means to feel comfortable, or how to live without feeling overwhelmed. They just don't have the concept.

the most successful eighth graders from poor economic backgrounds had only the same chance of attaining a bachelor's degree as the least successful eighth graders from the wealthiest echelon of society

You must welcome tests because it gives you confidence and it ensures promotion.