Quotes About Opportunity

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.   Even

Girls can do anything these days.

I have always loved long journeys. The act of leaving accustomed surroundings is a release from real time, real life. You can place that familiar life on hold, freeze it, secure in the awareness that it will be there waiting for you when you come back. The journey itself becomes an opportunity to explore parallel lives, those other optional lives which have always been there.

The great lesson we learn from life is when, and when not be, in the centre of things

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity . . . of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness

From Spanish conquistadores to the propagandists for the American Way of Life, the New World has been hymned as a potential paradise. The paradise that the Middle Ages had sought became secularized as the land of unlimited possibilities.

Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.

I was able to liberate Soon-Yi from a terrible situation and provide her with an opportunity to flower and realize her potential, and she would never have to eat a bar of soap or long for a hug or get hit with a phone again.

People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

If 80 percent of life is showing up, the other 80 percent, as Yogi Berra might've said, is chance.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi

A bird in the hand is worth three in the Bush.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.   Seize

Seize the Unexpected Opportunity   In

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in hope of a better life.

Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

A dolgok nem úgy alakultak, ahogy kellett volna, de mit tehet az ember? Úgy kell fogadnunk az életet, ahogy jön, és amennyire lehet, ki kell hoznunk belÅ'le a legjobbat.