Quotes About Opportunity

The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Your Talents SCRIPTURE READING: LUKE 19:12– 27 KEY VERSE: LUKE 19:17

However, there always is hope with Christ—always another opportunity and always enough wisdom and strength to get through the situation victoriously.

Mi intención es seguir aprendiendo y mejorando cada año por el resto de mi vida. Dios no lo llevará a convertirse en algo sin ayudarle a ser lo mejor que posiblemente pueda ser en ese campo. No le dará un talento para luego fallar en darle la oportunidad de descubrirlo, usarlo, desarrollarlo, practicarlo y perfeccionarlo.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens, but in bringing them within reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort. —JOSEPH SCHUMPETER1

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

that this was a lesson my father impressed on me at an early age: "Often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder." Fred Koch's

A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years... A day of temporal tune up!

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

A library card is a credit card.

And the strongest emotion was that life was as precious as it was puzzling. It was an ecstacy because it was an adventure; it was an adventure because it was an opportunity.

Life: What you choose to make it.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

Life is short and full of blisters.

In the map of your life, the best place to be is at the intersection of Here and Now. You can't get to any other place you want to be without starting from there.

Are you sure we are making the most of it?

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

You can have all the rest of the year if you will give me April and May.