Quotes About Opportunity

It was one of those moments—an instant of grace in a crazy, sometimes impossibly dangerous world—that changed a man's life.

There's nothing wrong with being scared. It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we are afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

She thought about the chain of choices that had led her here. A ten-degree shift anywhere along the way and everything would be different.

This is only your first test. Learn from it.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. —Richard Bach, Illusions

Dreams. They'd had so many of them, and a surprising number had come true. The funny thing was that she hadn't valued them all highly enough when she'd had the chance.

Take it from me, Father. Life is over quickly, and you only regret what you didn't do.

reminded her how precious time was, how fleeting. How sometimes life snipped the edges off your good intentions and left you with no second chance to say what really mattered.

Many of them, like the pioneers who went west one hundred years before them, brought nothing more than a will to survive and a hope for a better future.

I'm starting over now; this is my new beginning.

It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw.

question was gone, tossed onto the pile of lost chances that made up Before.

Elsa knew that a library card—a thing they'd taken for granted all of their lives—meant there was still a future. A world beyond this struggle.

came west in search of a better life, but

The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

life is more than what happens to us, Elsa. We have choices to make.

Christ. Time is short, don't you understand that? We bump along, blindly assuming we have forever to do things, say things…but we don't. You can feel perfectly fine, and go to your annual checkup on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, and discover that your time's up. Game over.

have an opportunity to make

She couldn't let herself be seduced by the idea of credit. Nothing in this life was free, for migrants most of all.

folks who hang on to the past miss their chance for a future.

We cannot allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. How can we call ourselves the land of the free when people are living on the streets and dying of hunger?

out of her bag and slid it across the desk. "That's why I'm giving Noah this one opportunity to save his grade. If he'll fill this journal

Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

that in moments like this, it doesn't matter what you were born to be. It matters what you choose to become.