Quotes About Opportunity

This time it's our turn to have the good idea.

What have you done today with your inheritance of time?

Is it better for you to have what you have now, this opportunity in another country, or is it better for you to be with the people who will always love you no matter what?

And as in any line of business, a succeeding CEO who couldn't make a bygone cock-up look like an opportunity missed wasn't fit for management, and should take her retirement package, her annual bonus, her golden handshake and her non-disclosure kickback and tiptoe from the boardroom in disgrace.

Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to level the playing field. It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim that traditional civil rights solutions have failed to achieve real equality, by which is meant equality of results. Traditional civil rights solutions were focused on the fairness of the institutional process, the elimination of legal barriers to political power and individual opportunity.

Of course, the political history of the United States is exactly the reverse. It is in large measure the history of a nation that led the world in eliminating slavery, in accommodating peoples it had previously defeated, in elevating nonwhites to a position of dignity and respect, in promoting opportunities and rights to women, and in fostering a healthy skepticism towards unworthy leaders and towards the dangers inherent in government itself.

We move in time, but God operates in eternity. He sees the end from the beginning. He cannot be taken by surprise, for our past, present, and future are before Him and in His grip all at once. An emergency to you or me is an opportunity in the great mosaic

Out of the suffering of God's people have come some of the greatest triumphs. When circumstances look darkest, God has the opportunity to shine the brightest.

The ambitious and restless, the poor and desperate, the gullible, the land hungry, the exile from oppression, the start-over dreamer, the Go West! hothead, the get-rich-quick drifter--all were spellbound by the mystique of Dakota in the 1880s.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Years into days. Days into hours. Hours into minutes. Minutes into moments. Moments into possibility.

Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.

That joy in discovering that the right person at the right time can open all the windows and unlock all the doors.

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

Let's make plans," I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, "No, let's leave it to chance.

I only have a day to give—so why can't it be a good one? Why can't it be a shared one? Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.