Quotes About Opportunity

You never know where the night will take you.

Here's the thing about love, Mrs. Basil E. replied. You get a last chance. And then, when that doesn't work, you make yourself another last chance. Then another. Then another. You keep going until your last chances run out.

People come to New York to be different

É uma grande mentira dizer que só existe uma pessoa com quem se vai ficar pelo resto da vida. Se tiver sorte? E se se esforçar bastante? Sempre haverá mais de uma.

Caterina, a great adventure is in store for you.

We need to be willing to chance failure in order to succeed.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit

a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all.

You've got today, and there's all of time and all the world in today.

There's the past, which we might wish desperately that we can change, and there's now. If we don't seize the now with all our might, it becomes just another part of the past that we end up wishing we could change.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing.

Carpe coffeum

We are what we are, he thought, and maybe the only time we can change what we are is when life throws us such a surprise that it's like hitting a plate-glass window with a baseball bat, shattering the grip of the past.

The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

Carpe noctem

Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in this momentous day.

Fate isn't a straight road, I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

This side of Eden, whether we realize it or not, we feel the stain on our souls, and at every opportunity, we try to scrub it away with steel-wool guilt.

By the time he receives a high school degree