Quotes About Opportunity

God created everything with potential.

Whenever we use our time to do things that neither release our potential nor help us progress toward the accomplishment of our purpose, we forfeit or delay the opportunity to reach the excellency and completion God intended for our lives.

Life is a precious gift, cherish every moment and make the most of it.

Seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

Seize the day. Because we're only going to experience a limited number of springs, summers, and falls.

In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in their possession a book which will do a thousand things not only in and for them but through them in the world. And they use it to sustain only three or four things they already do.

Punishment is what would happen later, if this opportunity were missed: "By your hard, unrepentant heart you are building up a store of anger for yourself on the day of anger" (2:5). What we have in the present passage, though, is not a statement of how that punishment fell on Jesus, but rather a statement of how the sins that had been building up were "passed over." God has drawn a veil over the past, as Paul said in Athens (Acts 17:30).

Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity.

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Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Some things were worth the dance with danger.

A life is not a waste of time

I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I 'should' want. Sometimes there is no 'should,' there's only a single chance to grab on to happiness.

There is one—how would you put it—loophole." "Loophole? More like a giant cavern if I have wings.

Bridges are built over thin air. Someone must lay the first plank, the first brick, take the risk.

Fangs flashed in her face. "It's so nice when lunch has the manners to present itself on the doorstep.

In the wall there are many doors. Be patient, search with diligence, for one will open to your key. And oh, the land beyond is very fair.

diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —

It made me understand that we don't always get to decide what we let in and what we keep out. A door is just an idea.

The Universe continually gives us gifts, but we have to open them.

Stepping outside your comfort zone to reach out can have tremendous payoffs. Whether you are building your network of media contacts, writing an opinion piece for a newspaper or blog, arranging a meeting with your local Congressman, or engaged in a media blitz around your latest paper, you'll generate ripples that can lead to surprising and gratifying results.

Life is short and must be lived.