Quotes About Opportunity

It's never too late to do the right thing.

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

That's the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

And maybe, just maybe, it will.

she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

I suspect that most people harbor a lingering sense of What if I'd followed my heart?

sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs

In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did. (p. 96, Trevor Benson)

Life endlessly offers us chances to set new directions and in the process we grow and change; when we look in the rearview mirror, we catch a glimpse of former selves who sometimes seem unrecognizable. [Trevor Benson]

Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer.

and one of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now." this book also had a lesson of taking risks for Lexi she was a middle aged women who was waiting for that one guy to sweep her off her feet. well one had come along (aka Jeremy Marsh) and she was about to let him go. but she got out of her comfort zone and loved him.

The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

It's like the Boy Scouts' motto, be prepared. You've got to be ready when the moment is offered. If you're not, you can actually screw it up for life.

We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.

Everest is how it is right now. We have to fix ropes up there; we have the commercial expeditions. If you don't like that, go on another mountain or choose another part of the mountain. There's still space for everybody.

To be an English person in my 20s, doing a Broadway show - it's one of the mountains I wanted to climb.