Quotes About Opportunity

Run if you can because, in spite of how it looks on television, it's hard to hit a moving target. If you can't run, fight and fight dirty. Go for the eyes. Think of every object around you as a weapon. Strike fast and hard when you get the chance because you'll only get one chance.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.

Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.

I actually think there are lots of good matches for each person, and they cross our paths all the time, but we're so wedded to the idea of love at first sight that we can miss the really great people who don't come with a thunderbolt attached.

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....

The path to success is a thorny one, and the way is steep. There are many pitfalls. It is a fool who does not take advantage of a helping hand when it is offered.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.

A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

It is never too late to learn to love. But it is frightening.

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?