Quotes About Opportunity

what it was—a clean slate, a chance to create something entirely different, a chance to discard all things that weren't in sync with personal philosophies. Hope. That's what it gave her most. By 3:30 p.m., the trash bins were all overflowing and her ten-year-old Volvo was stuffed to the ceiling. Zoe wandered the halls, wondering

Starting over didn't have to be scary or painful if you looked at it for what it was—a clean slate, a chance to create something entirely different, a chance to discard all things that weren't in sync with personal philosophies. Hope. That's what it gave her most.

In a sense, our darker moments and most upsetting feelings are an opportunity for spiritual growth and uncovering our natural wisdom, for waking up—if we choose to use them that way. If so, our deepest insights can emerge from working directly—with awareness—with our own difficulties.

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.

Treat the job as an apprenticeship

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

every second of the day offers a beautiful opportunity to achieve success. Therefore, you have 86,400 chances to change your life every day.

You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

Perhaps it was a lost opportunity. There's always a special thrill to the forbidden, or so they say.

Conservatism is founded on the principle of equality of opportunity, not result.

If I say that I'm educated and was jobless in Dhaka, that I want to work here, build myself a healthy, beautiful life, the kind of life that everyone dreams of, they'd just throw me out of the country. Political asylum they may just allow, but economical asylum - never!

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny

I was a scrawny, knock-kneeded little waif at seven with tangles in my hair and no acting training (in fact, with little formal schooling at all), but Peter took me on. He'd later say that it was my scrappy attitude that got me the job.

Poverty is not the stepchild of the Great Recession; poverty has always been a part of American life.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space.

Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.

Life is full of things you never figured on.

What's for you is for you. Extend your hand and claim your blessing.

No book before its time.

Spontaneity and playing it by ear is fine for those who can afford it, but a boy from Eloe had to have a strategy

Accident of birth is the number one predictor of happiness.' Once

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.