Quotes About Opportunity

I...should have...risked it." She grasped Alex's hand in both of hers as if she were cupping life-giving water. "Life isn't...meant to be spent...hiding in the corner with your arms huddled over your head, protecting...yourself from anything that might hurt you. Life should be...embraced.

Sometimes you have to break a few rules in life, especially when the stakes are high enough.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter. Finally he nodded. "One would be a start, I suppose, though I probably could use about a half dozen free passes." "Instead, we have to do our best to live with the consequences of our choices.

a bend in the road is not the end, unless you fail to make the turn.

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

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With better vision, we sacrifice for students for whom that sacrifice will most likely pay off. I'm sorry to say this, but there are times when even superhuman effort will not save a child from his environment or himself. It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teachers' job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

I've learned the best reason to take children on the road: children learn and understand how to behave by being exposed to new situations and watching others...As a teacher of children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, I came to understand that my students would work harder for a better life if they saw the life they were working for.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' I realized then where the problem lay. My students, and so many of our young people today, want a good life. They love (even if they don't always appreciate) liberty. They all want to be happy. But I realized that day that my class was a microcosm of what is wrong with some any of nation's young people. What happened to pursuit? We aren't handed happiness. We're given an opportunity to pursue it.

mind is a terrible thing to waste, and the United States is wasting too many of them.

developing countries typically have higher inflation, and developing countries also have higher growth.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

Let not it be said that you failed,because you never tried. Believe in yourself and your dreams you will pursue..The choice is yours and it's all up to you,to just do..

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The strategy of providing quality while refusing equality was vulnerable.

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.