Quotes About Opportunity

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

At any moment, I could start being a better person...but which moment should I choose?

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Only Once In Your Life

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.