Quotes About Opportunity

Dedicarle tiempo a la física es un lujo —le comentó a Ellie—. Mucha gente podría hacer lo mismo si contara con iguales oportunidades, pero si tenemos que recorrer las calles en busca de comida, no nos quedará tiempo para la física. Mi obligación, por lo tanto, es mejorar las condiciones para los jóvenes científicos de mi país.

you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had, and you've had it.

That time is short and it doesn't return again.

The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

We never know what we can be or do until the need is there and we are tested by it.

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.

you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out.

You have to make the best of the life you are given.

But regrets don't help. We have to forget about what we couldn't do and concentrate on what we can.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

It is not given to us already cast. It is given as a set of possibilities, and we must choose which of these we would make happen and then try to see it done.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

Stoon savored the memory. It gave him an undeniable satisfaction. There were many others like it, but none that provided such a clear sense of fulfillment. Drust Chazhul had been a monster, bereft of any sense of moral obligation or purpose in life. He had only wanted to achieve power and then hang on to it. Such men were plentiful and always replaceable. Such men needed purging, and when the chance came to remove one, it was an opportunity to be exploited.

You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.

Well, that's what you did when things went wrong. You thought about what you would do if you had that second chance you would never get.

I think it is something else. I think we were given a starting point, but nothing more. The future remains undecided. Things may change as events unfold, and we must be ready to change with them.

of what waits just around the next corner.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

Sometimes making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Your only chance is to let the truth escape.

You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.

we have to look to the challenge of the future with excitement, not fear.

You cannot go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.