Quotes About Opportunity

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed.

La debolezza sta nel non agire al momento opportuno.

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path." She smiled sadly. "Even if that choice comes a little late.

just because something had never been done before did not mean it could not be done.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

A risky plan, but what is life without risk, eh?

There are always options. And a wise man always has more than one plan.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

think, again, of my mother opening her front door to a Swedish sailor, the stuff of fairy tales: Rapunzel letting down her hair, Cinderella sliding her foot into the glass slipper, Sleeping Beauty awaiting a kiss. All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after—or at least it must've seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity for escape?

All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after- or at least it must have seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity to escape?

I'm one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. When we got to New York, she'd make me read to her, anything with words on it—crates and bottles I found in the street.

ORPHAN TRAIN is a specifically American story of mobility and rootlessness, highlighting a little-known but historically significant moment in our country's past. Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children—many

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

only link we had to our future was a name scrawled on a piece of paper my father tucked in his shirt pocket as we boarded the ship: a man who had emigrated ten years earlier and now, according to his Kinvara relatives, owned a respectable dining establishment in New York City.

It was worse for Mam, who discovered on the boat she was again with child and could hardly keep any food down. But even with all of this, as I stood on the lower deck outside our dark, cramped rooms in steerage, watching the oily water churn beneath the Agnes Pauline, I felt my spirits lift. Surely, I thought, we would find a place for ourselves in America.

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.