Quotes About Opportunity

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.

Then it comes to him—how you can't return to a place you've never been to, can't recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

Are we not all creatures of chance?

Here, on the ground, nothing is likely, everything possible.

the past had other possibilities, and so do we today.

Fiction gives us the second chance that life denies us.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us. -Paul Theroux, novelist (b. 1941)

What I had learned on the border from the mothers intending to cross was not that they wished to make a new life in the States, but that they hoped, as a solution, to make enough money to keep their family together in Mexico.

It is a fairly simple matter to walk to Mexico at any point, but there is always a crush of people—all of them with documents—waiting to enter the US to work, go to school, or shop.

That's a road. You can take it. Go that way. My bus is too big, but your car can do it.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us

Africa had been deliverance for me, a liberating embrace and an opportunity.

calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

the obstacles to becoming noticed or published

Some of those people ended up in the maquiladoras

Many Mexicans I met—working in hotels, restaurants, and shops, driving taxis—had held jobs in the States and been thrown out.

Here we have poor people, but poor because they have no opportunities. It's sad.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello. Paulo Coehlo

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.