Quotes About Opportunity

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.

Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.

You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for.

Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word.

Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

It is never too late to do anything in life.

I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts.

Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.