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Quotes About Opportunity

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
~ Mark Twain
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~ Marcus Garvey
Chance favours the trained mind.
~ Louis Pasteur
I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.
~ Bette Midler
With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or what ever, the next teacher is going to pop right up. —CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK
~ Pema Chodron
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.
~ Pema Chodron
Everything in your life - every moment, every struggle - is the path. Everything is an opportunity for awakening.
~ Pema Chodron
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE
~ Pema Chodron
We are given chances all the time. We can either cling to security, or we can let ourselves feel exposed, as if we had just been born, as if we had just popped out into the brightness of life and were completely naked.
~ Pema Chodron
Our attitude can be that we keep getting another chance, rather than that we're just getting another bad deal.
~ Pema Chodron
Those events and people in our lives who trigger our unresolved issues could be regarded as good news. We don't have to go hunting for anything. We don't need to try to create situations in which we reach our limit. They occur all by themselves, with clockwork regularity.
~ Pema Chodron
Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can't handle whatever is happening.
~ Pema Chodron
Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news." – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
~ Pema Chodron
Opening the shop gave her, every morning, the same feeling of promise and opportunity. The books stood as neatly ranged as Gipping's vegetables, ready for all comers.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
All Fitzgerald's books are the product of maturity, reflection, the quickly touched depth of accumulated knowledge and long experience. Their creation reflects the new sense of opportunity that may come with the bereavements and displacements of later life.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
The regrets of old age are polarized: you wish you had not done certain things--behaved thus, responded like that--and you wish you had seized more of the day, been greedier, packed more in.
~ Penelope Lively
a minha vida é o esforço de mostrar a uns e a outros que há sempre lugar para o talvez.
~ Unknown
Nem tudo na vida é doloroso ou inviável.
~ Unknown
Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.
~ Peter Benchley
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
~ Peter Drucker
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem - which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values.
~ Peter F. Drucker
And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
~ Peter F. Drucker