Quotes About Opportunity

A life postponed too long might never be lived.

There's good news and slightly less good news.

But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?

There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Admitting that racism has played a part in our success means admitting that the American dream isn't quite so accessible to all.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

Falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.