Quotes About Opportunity

Anything you want to be, you can come be that with us. Rain or shine, no problem

You are placed in landscape, you are placed in time. But, within that, there's a bit of room for manoeuvre. To some extent, you can be author of your own fate.

The stars remind us every night that we have the opportunity to create heaven on earth. from The Expected One

There are times in our lives when the Lord calls us to seize the opportunities presented us. When we must, no matter how hard or fearful, summon the courage to step out into the unknown, brave the darkness, and embrace the dawn. With the Lord's help, though, such seemingly impossible feats become not only attainable, but essential.

Life is all about risks, taking chances. It doesn't matter how safe and comfortable you want things to be. They never are. - Brooke Hart

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs. I

If one knocks oneself out of one's routine—and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs—then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is.

I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.

You'd be surprised, Mr. Winshaw. They give library cards to anyone these days. Even secretaries.

Do you know what this reminds me of--every time I see it happen? It's like a kids' game where the ones who are successful stand in a circle, grabbing money with one hand and passing it with the other. While everyone else stands around on the outside, watching them anxiously and trying to figure a way to get into the circle so they can play too.

Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Lord Chesterfield

Don't wait for life to happen; life is happening now!

Without a computer and with no other way to access the Internet, she had managed to submit fifty job applications online via her iPhone's tiny touch screen in the past few months. While these applications had generated some interviews, they had not resulted in a single job offer.

How is it that a solid work ethic is not an adequate defense against extreme poverty?

In the early 2000s, researchers in Chicago and Boston mailed out fake résumés to hundreds of employers, varying only the names of the applicants, but choosing names that would be seen as identifiably black or white. Strikingly, "Emily" and "Brendan" were 50 percent more likely to get called for an interview than "Lakisha" and "Jamal.

Even the researcher was surprised by what she found: the white applicant with a felony conviction was more likely to get a positive response from a prospective employer than the black applicant with no criminal record. When the study was replicated in New York City a few years later, she and her colleagues saw similar results for Latino applicants relative to whites.

Recent research has found that when a new Walmart opens in a community, it causes an overall loss in jobs in that community

Never say no to a cup of tea and never pass up the chance to use the toilet was her sage advice.

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

A couple of times I've been called on to do things–jobs or whatever–where I've felt, Maybe I'm not quite ready. Maybe it's a little early for this to happen to me. But the rules are so ingrained. "Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward" has helped me to be more adventurous. It has definitely helped me be less afraid. —Tina Fey comedian and writer

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. —George Allen

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. —James Russell Lowell Poet, Editor, and Diplomat

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. —Isaac Asimov Writer