Quotes About Opportunity

So I think I'll stay here a little while longer. There's plenty of time to get off this gurney and open that door and rejoin the rest of you. There's all the time I have left on Earth. There's the rest of my life.

A word of advice, sweetheart: when you're at the brink; when it's a choice between what's safe and what might be better, even if what's best is also scary, take a chance, honey.

But every second I'm alive is one more moment I still have a chance to do something.

Freedome in AMERICA

A pity we hadn't had time to say all the things we wanted to each other.

Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness, but she knew that the white world held even more power. You just needed to find a way to break in.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all.

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.

Only rarely do doctors in training have the opportunity to sit continuously with laboring women for hours. Most are taught to intervene in the normal process so often and so early that they have never witnessed a normal labor and birth.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

Fear, any fear, is a waste of time. As the regrets.

And she wondered then how many amazing views she'd missed from the safety of her spot here at the bottom.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ~ W.M. Lewis

When something really, really good finds you, welcome it, embrace it.

Life is short, my friend. We have to make the most of our chances. We're not so different from these little guys. Happiness is out there. But it's not guaranteed, and we can't wait for it to come to us.

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity. – Arabian Proverb

It's choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. " ?Jean Nidetch

Someone once said every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. The trick then has to be letting go of the safe, the known and reaching out for what we can't yet see.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

Isn't it better to just leave some doors in our lives closed?" "Not if you're always going to wonder what might have been behind them.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." ? Joseph Campbell