Quotes About Opportunity

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able.

What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

That's why it's especially important to be the people we want to be now, to become more open and expansive while we're able to. A lot will be left dangling if we wait too long.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea. We knew that our supervisor was trying to tell us something important. But we didn't have time to think about it.

You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' I thought I knew what I planned to do, but now everything has changed.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility. I don't know what will happen next—how potentially exciting!

thought about how regret can go one of two ways: it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.

A lot can happen in the space of a step.

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.

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Shelley says some people were born on third base and some people were born outside the ballpark, and the journey to home plate ain't the same for all. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to, like, find a way to get everybody in the game?

Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.

Cast your hook in the stream where you least expect to get a bite; if you hook a fish, then you'll know you're truly lucky. —Dutch Callahan

Better than never having loved at all. The real moral of the story is that you should take love when and where you can find it because none of us know how long we have left.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by.

In all your dealings, remember that today is your opportunity; tomorrow some other fellow's.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

To take from life what you can, while you can.

He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.