Quotes About Opportunity

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

The best of times is now.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other—to be in a position to make the climb up life's mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

One of my greatest lessons has been to fully understand that what looks like a dark patch in the quest for success is the universe pointing you in a new direction. Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that's ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It's not the thing that matters, it's what that thing opens within you. — Oprah

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. What I know for sure is that every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and step out and dance—to live free of regret and filled with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self-doubt.

Every decision, setback, or triumph is an opportunity to identify the seeds of truth that make you the wondrous human being you are.

One of my greatest lessons has been to fully understand that what looks like a dark patch in the quest for success is the universe pointing you in a new direction.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

and I believe that education is the door to freedom

The more the loving parts of your personality are the ones you're cultivating, the more opportunity

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance - Wenn du wählen kannst, ob du etwas aussitzt oder tanzt, dann wird du hoffentlich tanzen.

We all get the opportunity to feel wonder every day, but we've been lulled into numbness. Have you ever driven home from work, opened your front door, and asked yourself how you got there? I know for sure that I don't want to live a shut-down life—desensitized to feeling and seeing. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. On experiencing joy on every level.