Quotes About Opportunity

At that darkest moment, while drowning in the Abyss of Emotional Bankruptcy, reflect on this universal truth: the difference between success and failure is one more time.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life

Sometimes we don't get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end."He winces. "We didn't even get a first chance.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.

The best Haynes could do was line up perhaps a week of shows, a month in advance. So the band was never sure what the next few months would hold. They'd simply aim for parts of the country where they hadn't been and hope for the best.

The Internet allows DIY to range far beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.

adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.

A Coyote game of paths and chances.

Nobody should grow old." "And everybody should get the chance.

The city shimmered out there like a million dreams, not all of them good.

I think, young man, that you only run into a person that is a perfect fit once in your life. When you find the one that you think fits, then grab on for dear life.

It was a long shot but Ballard knew that long shots never paid off if you didn't take them.

Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really dropped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically— any way you want to look at it— everybody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

You always have an option. There is always something you can do. You are never without choice.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

It's the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.

One error at the beginning is quite likely just that.

One man's real estate crisis is another's opportunity. All markets work in this way, providing investors with cash the chance to buy—stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities—when prices are depressed. This reality is devoid of emotional weight and is the basic truth that keeps capitalist economies working.

Some people come to the edge of the cliff and they look over, then run away in fear. They never realize it's possible to fly, to soar, to be free. They spend their lives crawling along cliff tops without finding the courage.