Quotes About Opportunity

live in the United States.

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

But suddenly, he was firmly resolved about declining the UCLA alternative. A little while before, there had been a storm of controversy about Mickey Mantle and the kind of priority treatment he had received. DeForest suspected he was getting the celebrity treatment, that he might in effect take someone else's opportunity to live longer. In the end, he refused all treatment short of the medication designed to slow the growth of his cancer and the drugs for the pain.

I personally believe in the power of second chances.

This sound self-serving, but being interested in everything makes you a more effective opportunist—and that's what an editor has to be, a student of unintended consequences.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.

Have talent, work hard, get lucky!

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

I must wait, bide my time. There will be an opportunity. I need only keep my eyes open. Back

The gracious thing to do was to accept the beauty of the opportunity if it was given

My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.

Everything in life is but a challenge. Challenges can never be good or bad; we make of our challenges what we will.

There's a problem out of every solution and a solution out of every problem

We have an opportunity, but we have an obligation to senior citizens and to the younger people who are entering the workforce today to help ensure that they are going to be able to trust the government to have a workable program that benefits them as well.

Life is filled with either problems or possibilities. When you look at a problem, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful source that transforms grief into greatness. Don't be someone who goes through greater lengths to avoid change than you do to obtain what you desire. You must define and embrace the necessary changes that move you forward. Go beyond your discontent for what is, and instead focus on imagining and creating the best of what's possible.

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!

Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.

I hope that something better comes along.