Quotes About Opportunity

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

use your restless and churning mind as an opportunity to look more deeply into it, rather than as an immediate reason to conclude that the meditation is "not working.

The true leader is concerned primarily with the welfare of others, not with his own comfort or prestige. He shows sympathy for the problems of others, but his sympathy fortifies and stimulates; it does not soften and make weak. A spiritual leaders will always direct the confidence of others to the Lord. he sees in each emergency a new opportunity for helpfulness (152).

To neglect receiving kindness and help is to isolate oneself, to rob others of opportunity, and to deprive oneself of sustenance. Our example in this is the ultimate Servant Jesus, who came to serve but graciously accepted the service of others—people like His hosts Mary and Martha, the use of the colt He rode into Jerusalem, and others.

A discretionary hour can be wisely invested or foolishly wasted. Each

Never be on the bear side but on the bull side when the United States is in question.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

I buy when other people are selling.

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Do you still want to be a farmer?' Mom asked. I shook my head. 'Then study hard. You can choose your future, your sisters and brother can't. You're lucky. If they had blisters like yours, they would still have to be there till the last stem was harvested. It's their life.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

His spirit was never to waste a single moment, for once it was gone, it was gone forever.

If I don't get a job, it's Wharton mba. Or teach English in Japan.