Quotes About Opportunity

Bad timing can change our perfect future together and separate us forever without even letting us know. Smile....... we'll never know.

If there was any justice in the war at all, it was a rich man's fight just as much as it was a poor man's; and when the time came for deciding who should and who should not take a turn on the battlefield, the chances ought to have been equal, between the rich men and the poor men, of drawing prizes or blanks in the lottery.

The past doesn't always have to write the future.

You had such promise, Katarina. You were top of your class in mathematics, in chemistry, physics. You won the English essay contest. You were on the honor roll. You could have been anything you wanted, but now you are a maid, cleaning up after other people.

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

You couldn't help yourself," he said. "Actually, I couldn't," she said. "If I hadn't the opportunity—if you hadn't been so shockingly understanding—and tempting—" "I worked damned hard at that. The tempting part. I wasn't sure you were paying attention." "Apparently, I was doing little else but.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Uzmi sve Å¡to ti dan donosi i ne vjeruj u sutra.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Half my life is over, I would say, seemingly out of nowhere, in our very first session—and Wendell would jump right on this. He was picking up where my internship supervisor had left off years earlier. You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

The inability to say yes, however—to intimacy, a job opportunity, an alcohol program—is more about lack of trust in oneself. Will I mess this up? Will this turn out badly? Isn't it safer to stay where I am?

I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

You won't get today back.

I'm reminded," he begins, "of a famous cartoon. It's of a prisoner, shaking the bars, desperately trying to get out—but to his right and left, it's open, no bars.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

Life. It's your birthday present. Open it up and play with it. Act like you like it. (The One who gave it to you is watching, after all. Don't wanna hurt His feelings.) And if you don't like your life, CHANGE IT. It is all yours.

Every day we do things that are capable of changing everything, and that's what makes life exciting.

Whether or not this worked out, Ellie knew she would never regret it. Sometimes you just had to take the risk. Maybe it would be a brief but wonderful romance, maybe it would last a lifetime.

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

The word "crisis" is from the Greek, meaning "a moment to decide." The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, points of initiation which mark a release from one state of being and a growth into the next.

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it. quote from Tara Daniels

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels

But you make of it [life] what you can, and you do your best to enjoy the hell out of it, because it's the only life you get.

You only live once, right? Not true, Quinn said, you live every day. You only die once.