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Quotes About Opportunity

To live in regret and change nothing else in your life is to miss the entire point.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Somehow, through a flip of the coin, I ended up here. Feeling like somebody at the top of the heart-lung transplant recipient list. Damaged but invigorated and fucking lucky.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined.
~ Augusto Boal
How many people will die, have died, because of the wasted talents of intelligent and gifted women, forced into domestic drudgery, corseted by paternal demands, strangled by denial of opportunity?
~ Ayelet Waldman
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
~ Ayn Rand
every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.
~ Ayn Rand
If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
~ Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
~ Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~ Ayn Rand
He decided that if he ever got the chance again, he would get out of his comfort zone and adapt to change sooner. It would make things easier.
~ Spencer Johnson
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.   But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us."   A.J. Cronin
~ Spencer Johnson
It's time to find New Cheese." Hem argued, "But what if there is no Cheese out there? Or even if there is, what if you don't find it?" "I don't know," Haw said. He had asked himself those same questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was. He asked himself, "Where am I more likely to find Cheese—here or in the Maze?
~ Spencer Johnson
What would I do if I weren't afraid?
~ Spencer Johnson
You Change Your Valley Into A Peak When You Find And Use The Good That Is Hidden In The Bad Time.
~ Spencer Johnson
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us." A.J. Cronin
~ Spencer Johnson
Then when I heard the story of Who Moved My Cheese?, I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.
~ Spencer Johnson
Remember: Move with the Cheese! Ken
~ Spencer Johnson
He wondered why he had always thought that a change would lead to something worse. Now he realized that change could lead to something better.
~ Spencer Johnson
The Path Out Of The Valley Appears When You Choose To See Things Differently.
~ Spencer Johnson
most importantly, he realized that there is always New Cheese out there whether you recognize it at the time, or not. And that you are rewarded with it when you go past your fear and enjoy the adventure.
~ Spencer Johnson
Savor the adventure and move with the Cheese.
~ Spencer Johnson
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us.
~ Spencer Johnson
It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.
~ Spencer Johnson
Sure you can. It's not hard, if you just let go and try.
~ Spencer Johnson