Quotes About Opportunity

When opportunity knocks, you don't go punching it in the face.

Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born. (pg 3)

We can't always wait for the perfect timing.

Bloom Where You're Planted

Bloom where you are planted

Above all, a game is an opportunity, an easy- to-understand instrument by which context is defamiliarized just enough to allow what Huizinga famously refers to as his "a magic circle" of play to occur.

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

She never wanted Robbie to feel entitled because he was a boy, and she never wanted Vanessa to feel limited because she was a girl.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

Sky?' herhaalde Nicholas. 'Die naam hoor je niet vaak, hè?' Sky zag zijn kans schoon. 'Falco hoor je ook niet vaak,' zei hij kalm.

Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

There's always an open door. Forget the past and walk through.

My life is a book, a new chapter - a new day

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed—but it's a beginning.

Things have been going wrong for years. Only desperation could have driven me to seek the aid of a reprobate like you." Seeing the mischievous gleam in her eyes, he said promptly, "At least that is turning out well. Look at the splendid opportunity for Christian martyrdom that I'm giving you.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.

Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

stupidity was an equal opportunity condition.

Joyce ain't no exception. I suspect she got that job because she always had the right people in her corner and she was easy to train.