Quotes About Opportunity

For the first time in her life she could see perfectly well how a person arrived on that flight path: needing an alternative to the present so badly, the only doorway was a high window.

But luck is just throwing dice.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.

The war's [World War II] end has left America with loads of get-up-and-go, and no place to go.

I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them

Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes," he still loves to say, as often as possible. "It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here.

A delicate business, telling the truth. So long as Landis writes a happier falsehood for these men to tell themselves, they can believe in opportunity. They are the nearly rich

If you are one of the few that still hasn't been, let me tell you what a city is. A hot mess not easily escaped.

Crisis is opportunity.

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Any one moment could be like this, I thought. A continental divide.

But approaching mealtimes as a creative opportunity, rather than a chore, is an option.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

We had the moon in the window to smile on us for a minute and tell us the world was ours. Because all the adults had gone off somewhere and left everything in our hands.

Today was the day. Every day was the day.

Weeds are job security for the gardener.

800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it's because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their countries.

You feel like you'll never run into another one that's worth turning your head around for, but you will. You'll see." "No

But given the many shapes and forms the back door could take, she was pretty sure he'd already been through a couple of them, whether he knew it or not. Was it even possible to grow up a poor black man in America and avoid the back door?

fraction of a second, before asking

When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful!

If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.