Quotes About Opportunity

It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

Chance is unceasingly at work in our lives," Churchill would write years later, thinking back on Grenfell and the fate that might have been his, "but we cannot always see its workings sharply and clearly defined.

I have never met a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - President James A. Garfield

Of course a man has to take advantage of his opportunities, but the opportunities have to come," he told an audience in Cambridge, England, in the spring of 1910. "If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not the great occasion, you don't get the great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in times of peace, no one would know his name now.

during his first year at the Eclectic that, by his second year, the school had promoted him from janitor to assistant professor.

There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our Stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Although Churchill was quick to believe every good thing ever said about his potential, he wasn't willing to leave anything to chance.

It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

Choices are the hinges of destiny. Edwin Markham

Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?

All the what ifs in life were encompassed in that long pause.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

Las ocasiones llegan tarde o temprano, sólo hay que tener la paciencia de esperarlas y buen ojo de saber reconocerlas cuando se presentan.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted...

Every human life contains a potential. It that potential is not fulfilled, that life was wasted.

Well, you know what they say about traps."       "Be sure the reward is worth the risk?"       "Aye.

Unlived life is a destructive, irresistible force that works softly but inexorably.

As long as there are parents preparing children for little more than incarceration, we'll have no trouble keeping our prisons full.

You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

The joy of the journey itself is not only a key goal, it is the goal. The outcomes of the journey, whatever they are, will always be in the zone of the unknown. While you're getting to where you're going, though, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the greatest show on earth, the moment-by-moment process of consciousness itself.

Look beyond the worry-thoughts, and you will often find a new direction that's being laid out for you.

THERE WERE few worse places on earth to build a town, but Nome had gone up almost overnight after two Swedes and a Norwegian found a nugget the size of a small rock in a creek near the beach.