Quotes About Opportunity

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they're not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. They're players, but they think life is a practice game and they'll save themselves for later. So they sit on the bench, and the only championship they'll ever see goes on before them. The clock ticks away the quarters. At any moment they can join in.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

I've learned a simple and obvious truth from my own education experience: We have to give every kid in America the access to public education that I received. We need to place public education at the top of our priorities and the center of our national

But the wonderful thing about our democratic system is that anyone can jump in regardless of qualifications and present himself or herself to the American people, whether you are a former general, a former politician, a fool, or whatever. Quoted in The NPR Interviews 1996, edited by Robert Siegal

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Looked at from a spiritual standpoint, our discomfort in any given situation provides a signal that we are out of alignment with spiritual law and are being given an opportunity to heal something.

One thing I've learned from you and Bree is that every day is a gift. What we do with it is our choice.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself —Chinese proverb

When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear —Zen proverb

If it wasn't for that fateful day when I'd stopped at the grocery store for carrots, who knew what my life would be like?

If you want to catch a big fish, the best way is to fish in waters that are unpopulated by other fishermen.

They say 3 million people are looking for a job. False: all they really need is money.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

My greatest fear, is that when in the state of judgement, I am shown All that I could have done, had I trusted more.

Wait for the moment they least expect.

Maurice Oh yeah, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. Then I moved up to washing lettuces. Now, I'm working the fat fryer. Pretty soon I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

Nevertheless, in love, the present matters. There is always an opportunity to learn and experience something new, to expose ourselves to wisdom by recognizing the humanity in others, to see through their eyes our one world; in this way, with love, we enter an empathetic space, as if it were a portal to a whole new world.

If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice.

If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

I just want to say to the kids out there watching: You can do anything you want in life. Unless Jay Leno wants to do it too.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career