Quotes About Opportunity

Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.

When we squander the moments of our lives, Peter, we are spending the most valuable currency.

You were built for this moment.

What if choices were not viewed as right and wrong, but instead as just a variety of life experiences?

doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.

Cuanta razón tenía Disraeli! Cuando nuestro pájaro halla abierta la jaula, no quiso volar.

When you have to jump, you jump.

For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.

After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.

He wasn't the only one who'd ever suffered—yet he'd been given a unique opportunity to make a difference.

No podemos elegir cuándo llegan a nuestras vidas ciertas personas. El momento no siempre es el más oportuno, pero cuando algo es bueno, es bueno.

Keep everything young and soft, keep everything on the surface, even with the knowledge that the surface fades and can't be held together forever - take advantage before the expiration date appears in the nearing distance.

Life is full of endless possibilities." I tried valiantly not to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom

what today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter for tomorrow; it will push you toward breakdown or breakthrough...

if that's true, might we, far from being disloyal heretics, actually have the opportunity to become the evolutionary descendants of Jesus who are called to carry on his radically progressive vision in our brief time on this earth?

One day, J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil called Read to tell him that he had $136,000 that he had to get rid of, for some arcane tax reason, in the next twenty-four hours-and would Read, along with Howard Kershner of Christian Economics (a more right-wing religious education group Pew also supported) figure out among themselves what they could best do with it? Thanks. And they did.

Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

Discovery is dangerous Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

I wanted to correct her, but if I'd learned one thing by that point in my education, it was that when anybody in these cruel worlds offers a helping hand... you shut your fucking mouth and grab it.

Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country. Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.

These days, we can be whatever we want to be. The apocalypse is sort of freeing, don't you think?

Anyhow, I believe that there comes a day when you have to burn your bridges just to make sure you can still swim. What if you can't? Then you either learn real fastlike or you drown. And I don't plan on drownin' no time soon.