Quotes About Opportunity

Live your life in any way, London says. It encourages defiance. I loved what it gave me, who it allowed me to be.

At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Oprah Winfrey said in a Harvard commencement speech in 2013, "There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

I guess it's about what you have to give up to gain something else...Did you always have to give something up for a gain?

Remember: the past was left behind, the present is a choice and the future is never certain.

I stopped moving backwards, trying to recapture the past, there might be a future waiting for me, waiting for us, a future that would reveal itself if only I turned around and looked, and that once I did, I could start to move toward it.

No one here wants to admit it, but the United States is part of México's problem. The United States is feeding the beast, man. I thought maybe if I came here, I could make a difference.

Me pregunto si llegaré a ser alhun día feliz o si me pasaré el resto de mi vida luchando por sobrevivir. Aunque sobrevivo fabulosamente no quiero quejarme. Preferiría esperar lo peor y tener lo mejor... Maria callas

Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow.

President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

productive two-way relationship with their manager and their team. 3) Have the opportunity to use their natural abilities and are growing to new levels of success.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Risk is your friend. Don't be afraid of it. Understand it. Dance with it.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

You can take this process a step further even without a mirror. Whenever you sense yourself slipping into a relational syndrome at work, immediately ask to see, in your mind's eye, what you have the opportunity to shift, embrace, or change. Then intend this change for yourself.

She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

the flower gardens. And it will be the last chance

events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys' breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma