Quotes About Opportunity

Sometimes it takes a crisis for us to discover what we really can do when we have to," her uncle said. "You had to ride Sultan, so you did. Now you know how easy it is. It's as simple as that.

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.

Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun.

out why or explore their options. Then she met Wakil. It was at a conference her husband had attended at the U.S. consulate in Afghanistan for

You never know how a person you meet will impact your destiny. Reach out with an intent to serve, and see where that will take you.

Don't be a boss basher. One day you may be the boss. Don't be a company basher. If the company is so bad, why

Uncle Edisto always said, "Every ending is a new beginning.

Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.

Families in crisis have wrongly been labeled dysfunctional families. Families are not the problem—they are the opportunity. When we understand ourselves as the opportunity, we see our world with a new vision. We dare to hope for our dreams to materialize. We imagine once again what it will be like to be happy.

You never know what you're capable of until you're tested,

The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win.

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Terlalu banyak pilihan bisa memusingkan, tapi keterbatasan pilihan adalah penjara.

I've been thinking." Tapping his booted toes together, he tilted his head on the cushion. "Thinking what?" Looking to the side, she clutched her coat a little tighter. "I've been thinking that being a country doctor might be a rather nice change of pace." The tapping stopped. His body stilled. "What are you saying?" She looked at him. "That I'd go to Texas with you if the offer is still good.

In every seed lies the promise of forest.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win…life is self-correcting.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.