Quotes About Opportunity

The ooloi have seen to it that you'll have a chance to live on your Earth—not just to die on it.

All people who know what it is to end should be allowed to continue if they can continue.

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.

LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

This is the dark side of the "American dream." We blame the poor, accusing them of being poor because they do not work hard enough. Yet for the most part, the poor have less because the rich have taken more.

Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero. (17th Karmapa)

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

The story of your species is indeed a tragic story, for it closes with desolation. Your part in that story is both to strive and to fail in a unique opportunity, and so to set the current of history toward disaster. But think not therefore that your species has occurred in vain, or that your own individual lives are futile. Whatever any of you has achieved of good is an excellence in itself, and a bright thread woven into the texture of the cosmos.

In every darkness, there is enough light for you to discover your path. In every light, there is abundant darkness for you to miss your path

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

anywhere. There could be no new world, John

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars – it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

And what a stroke of luck that such a book had fallen into the hands of such a person in such a place.

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Enjoy yourself while you've still got the chance.

A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.

In particular, if Christians must reject the death penalty, it is not from an idolatrous sacralization of biological life, but in order to leave a person the opportunity of repentance. Remember this, and you will no longer judge: Judas was an apostle, and the thief crucified at Christ's right hand was a murderer. What a transformation in an instant! John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent,