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Quotes About Opportunity

Hurry up, before there's no more night left.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery.
~ Dustin Cruz
There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system...
~ Milton Friedman
No arbitrary obstacles should prevent people from achieving those positions for which their talents fit them and which their values lead them to seek. Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person—only his abilities.
~ Milton Friedman
But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.
~ Miranda July
Nu sunt pierdute decât acele b?t?lii pe care nu le începi niciodat?.
~ Mircea Eliade
A evita ridicolul înseamn? a refuza singura ÅŸans? de nemurire.
~ Mircea Eliade
In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side.
~ Misha Glenny
Would a Catholic turn down the chance to visit Lourdes? Or a Muslim an opportunity to see Mecca? Well, no self-respecting criminal would pass up the offer of a week in Odessa.
~ Misha Glenny
It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
~ Mitch Albom
There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
~ Mitch Albom
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
~ Mitch Albom
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
~ Mitch Albom
One day can bend your life.
~ Mitch Albom
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
~ Mitch Albom
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
~ Mitch Albom
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
~ Mitch Albom
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
~ Mitch Albom
What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
~ Mitch Albom
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you're surrounded by people who say 'I want mine now,' you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
~ Mitch Albom
But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. What if you got it back?
~ Mitch Albom
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as too late in life.
~ Mitch Albom
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
~ Mitch Albom
It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.
~ Mitch Albom