Quotes About Opportunity

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

Life is what you make it, girls. The past is all over and done with. What you got is the present, because tomorrow might never get here.

sometimes a door opens that isn't really a risk, but an opportunity.

you could have missed the pain, but you'd have had to miss the dance,'

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

Woohoo! It's release day! I hope you enjoy this book about writers and small towns and Christmas and second chances! Happy reading!

By jiminy, we do own the only newspaper in town. There must be some way we can use it to do some good there. - Mr. Wallace

Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.

chances given, chances not given, chances taken, chances lost. How are you supposed to know which to give, which not?

Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. [...] And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could.

Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers

It's difficult to know which second among a lifetime of seconds is more special. Often when you realise how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realise too late.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Beggars can't be choosers.

Ruby: You can put whatever name you like on it but at the end of the day a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity. But don't worry; I think there's a lesson to be learned in all this.

Moments are precious; sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeting, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change your mind, you could save a life and you could even fall in love.

So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

And then one good thing happened that day, the first good thing, the only good thing, but sometimes you only ever need one good thing.

Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear,' Constance went on, 'but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge?

Los momentos son muy valiosos; a veces se prolongan y otra veces son fugaces, y sin embargo puede hacerse mucho en ellos; en un momento puedes cambiar una mente, puedes salvar una vida y puedes incluso enamorarte.

maybe we just keep missing each other

You should be with someone who can make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of getting scared and being too afraid to try.

earlier?" Gabe