Quotes About Opportunity

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun shines; 'T is hard to carry

De multe ori, viitorul unui om a depins de lectura unei c?r?i.

sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else, and for everything you gain you lose something else.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

We are magnets...We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities...

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

You have all the time in the world, but don't waste a moment.

As that wise Indian, André Béteille, always points out, what we must strive for is reasonable equality of opportunity, not absolute equality of result. That we have plainly not achieved

countless people step into financial bondage because they spend money they don't have in order to underwrite a "once in a lifetime opportunity." God is not behind every good deal! Self-control means turning down most good deals on things we want because God may have other and better plans for his money.

Life on earth is a dot, a brief window of opportunity; life in Heaven (and ultimately on the New Earth) is a line going out from that dot for eternity. If we're smart, we'll live not for the dot, but for the line.

Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Boy, said the old man at last, in five years, how would you like a job selling shoes in this emporium? Gosh, thanks, Mr. Sanderson, but I don't know what I'm going to be yet. Anything you want to be son, said the old man, you'll be. No one will ever stop you.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal.

Ten years of doing everything wrong suddenly became the right idea, the right scene, the right characters, the right day, the right creative time.

That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

Once in a lifetime anyway, it's nice to make a mistake if you think it'll do somebody some good, she