Quotes About Opportunity

A lot of things would be lost or undone if people sat around, waiting for a miracle.

Not a rule, but a reminder. We must live this day. We'll never get to live it again.

Go and take what you want from life, Arnufo liked to counsel him. Don't wait for it to hand you something. Things given away freely are given away for a reason—because no one else wants them.

O que você mudaria em sua vida se pudesse começar tudo de novo, o que faria, quem seria, para onde iria é o que abraçaria?

My mother used to always tell me to embrace my dreams. If I can give you a chance to do so, then it's a gift to me, as well.

In all these places I have stood in Doorways and looked ahead.

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true. Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity. - Bertrand Russell

i am not a millionaire son " but i make my son become the , millionaire son. by jostalin

America had created a marvelous economic machine, but evidently one that worked only for those at the top. "Of the 1% for the 1% by the 1%

There are four hundred and fifty films written by Black screenwriters/filmmakers every year. Sadly, of these, only three will ever see the light of day.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

Birthdays are just personalized New Years.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

Everything comes to you at the right time

The environment you are put in will not prevent a focused person from being successful.

there is a lot more where that came from, thats just the tip of the iceberg"

Time and tide. Love had its own circadian rhythms, and it was beginning to look like he and Max had missed their chance, that they'd slipped into a comfortable somnolence. Perhaps they would continue on indefinitely, but it was all too likely one of these days they were simply going to drift gently, quietly apart.

We talked for almost an hour, and then I received one of the greatest thrills of my life. This man who was my father, this man who knew me too well for me to pull the wool over his eyes, looked at me and said, "Son, if God can do in my life what I've seen him do in yours, then I want to give him the opportunity. I want to trust him as my Savior and Lord." I cannot imagine a greater miracle.

My pastor had told me that forgiveness doesn't mean justifying or condoning what he did, but it would begin the process of freeing me from the past, and it would offer a lost person the opportunity for redemption.

My instinct is always to seek out challenges as opposed to avoiding them.

If I want to be the best, I have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and turning adversity to my advantage.