Quotes About Opportunity

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.

Fortunes were like clay, and could be reshaped at any time.

Life was a series of ifs—a very different outcome if you'd only played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.

What was the point of having a life if you never had the chance to live it?

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

Like the three points in a triangle, knowing your value, maintaining your value, and getting compensated for your value are essential in building professional stability and longevity. If the compensation or the opportunity sounds too good to be true — it probably is. Sooner or later, reality prevails over rhetoric.

Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?" "Those are brave words, Tiresias." "New parents can't afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

You can be the best worker, the smartest in your field, a person who has won awards for your dedication and excellence—but if you don't somehow let people know about your talents, they won't ever call you or ask for your help.

Ho'oponopono sees each problem not as an ordeal, but as an opportunity. Problems are just replayed memories of the past showing up to give us one more chance to see with the eyes of love and to act from inspiration.

A clear intention—stated without desperation or need, with a childlike spirit of trust, faith, and fun—led to an opportunity nobody could have predicted or orchestrated. Our job was to take inspired action when it appeared, and we did.

Los problemas son simplemente recuerdos del pasado que se repiten para darnos una oportunidad más de ver con los ojos del amor y actuar con inspiración».

When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He's offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person's life. You must learn to follow that love. Don't ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers.

Friendship is a springboard.

Marriage is a lifetime opportunity to have your spouse as your lifetime best friend.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Many things lost in life can be restored; however, time misused can never be recovered. Once the sun goes down, the day is forever gone.

I've spent so much time pushing the boat out that I forgot to jump on and now it's out beyond the harbour on the high seas, but it's very nice to look at.

it seemed like a great adventure, at least at the start.

Anything is possible," I said. "But most things are unlikely.