Quotes About Opportunity

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now, when?

The opportunity that is concealed within every crisis does not manifest until all the facts of any given situation are acknowledged and fully accepted. As long as you deny them, as long as you try to escape from them or wish that things were different, the window of opportunity does not open up, and you remain trapped inside that situation, which will remain the same or deteriorate further.

In order to attract success, you need to welcome it wherever you see it.

The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living

When we get an opportunity to open-raise from early position, this is the range I suggest you use:

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.

There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.

I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been.

Give a Martian woman a chance and death must take a back seat.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

meant action was expected. But it wasn't too late. All I had to do was tell him

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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

She was something he knew he had missed: the flower of life.

Once—twice—you gave me the chance to escape from my life, and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward. Afterward I saw my mistake—I saw I could never be happy with what had contented me before. But it was too late: you had judged me—I understood. It was too late for happiness—but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I have lived on—don't take it from me now!

the people who find fault with society are too apt to regard it as an end and not a means, just as the people who despise money speak as if its only use were to be kept in bags and gloated over? Isn't it fairer to look at them both as opportunities, which may be used either stupidly or intelligently, according to the capacity of the user?

Odbacila sam par dobrih prilika na samom po?etku – pretpostavljam da to svaka devojka uradi, a znate da sam vrlo siromašna – i vrlo skupa.