Quotes About Opportunity

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.

Each human being has the right to two blessings: getting things right and getting things wrong. In the latter case, there will always be a kind of apprenticeship that will lead him back to the right path.

Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.

Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.

When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

live each day as if it were my last.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live

He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.

Todos los días Dios nos da un momento en que es posible cambiar todo lo que nos hace infelices. El instante mágico es el momento en que un sí o un no pueden cambiar toda nuestra existencia.

God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.

Seize every oppurtunity that life offers you because when oppotunities go, it will take a long time to come back.

when you want something, the whole universe conspires to help you.

every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

To shut one's door while others suffer, to care only for one's own, disclaiming responsibility for humanity, is to destroy all good impulse and to build up a deadly selfishness which will be a boomerang in its effect upon ourselves. Let our own children see the opportunity now theirs for Americanism in the best and traditional sense. There was never a better hour than this to be an American. May 1940, Christian Herald.

Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs.

Each moment is an opportunity to make a fresh start.

The whole journey of renunciation, or starting to say yes to life, is first of all realizing that you've come up against your edge, that everything in you is saying no, and then at that point, softening. This is yet another opportunity to develop loving-kindness of yourself, which results in playfulness--learning to play like a raven in the wind.

Every challenge presents an opportunity for spiritual growth, whether it's a small irritation or when everything as you've known it falls apart.

Right there in the moment of sadness WHEN you wake up in the morning and out of nowhere comes the heartache of alienation and loneliness, could you use that as a golden opportunity? Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart? The next time you get a chance, experiment with this.

When you wake up in the morning and out of nowhere comes the heartache of alienation and loneliness, could you use that as a golden opportunity? Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart? The next time you get a chance, experiment with this.