Quotes About Opportunity

That was what I loved most about the capital; as terrifying and vast as it was, the opportunity for wonder existed. People could meet and part as in dreams.

Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.

Everyone has their own path. The choices they've made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same time is a mystery. You get on an elevator with a dozen strangers. You ride a bus, wait in line for the bathroom. It happens every day. To try to predict the places we'll go and the people we'll meet would be pointless.

And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

He realized with a start that something was about to begin. It might be something dull and uninspiring, something he had experienced countless times before, something that wouldn't make a lick of difference when he died. But it was always good to have something about to begin.

Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can

like most people of the time, that North America

would come along at least once

Procrastination is the enemy of time and results in lost opportunity.

too much debt is not a permanent state of being for those willing to invest in themselves and change their circumstances.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

You could do anything, anything you want with your life.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

If you are open to your growth potential, you will attract that for which you are willing to be responsible."  Rudi

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.