Quotes About Opportunity

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

We may not get do-overs in life, but we can always have fresh starts and new beginnings.

Second chances are rare and wonderful.

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

It is a unique and terrible privilege to witness the entire arc of a life, to see it through from its inception to its end. But it is also an opportunity to love without a net, without the future, without the past, but right now.

You and I are lucky, Nurse Power. I frowned. Lucky? To be alive and well, you mean? To be here, in the middle of this. We'll never learn more or faster.

Freedom from versus freedom to.

Freedom, expansion, opportunity, and, above all, peace and repose, alone can teach us the real dominant factors of human nature and all its wonderful possibilities.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

There are a lot of hopes riding on you. But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.

desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

If she ever got the chance to settle down, it would be in the U.S. — on the west coast though. Somewhere with sun.

This is the big time. I know you're in pain. That's just because you are sensitive to the spell's breakdown. But you have to ignore that. We have an island to move.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

If heaven may be found here and now, then heaven cannot be merely found in the absence of struggle as most of us assume, but in the very heart of our struggles. If Jesus' message is true, then our deepest challenges may offer our most profound opportunities. Heaven is found in the Dark Wood!

in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

Sering dikatakan orang bahwa bakat memberi banyak kesempatan untuk maju. Namun semangat besarlah yang kerap memberi kesempatan, dan bahkan memberi banyak bakat.

To the child, the savage, and the Wall Street operator everything seems possible, hence their credulity.

On the other hand, those who reject the present and fix their eyes and hearts on things to come have a faculty for detecting the embryo of future danger or advantage in the ripeness of their times.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future. The stone the builders reject becomes the cornerstone of a new world. A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. It was not the irony of history that the undesired in the countries of Europe should have crossed an ocean to build a new world on this continent. Only they could do it.

To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future.