Quotes About Opportunity

There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.

Why not"! That is SO wise. So many things would be possible in this world if you thought "Why not?" all day long.

Lifeis an enormous lottery: the prizes are few, the failures innumerable. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. That's life.

MIENTRAS MENOS FALLEMOS MAS GANAREMOS; MIENTRAS MAS NOS PREPAREMOS MAS AVANZAREMOS" Joaquín Rodrigues

Give a man five years, and, with unfortunate exceptions of course, he will find his level on the Pacific, and his place, whether high or low, as naturally as a stream of water.

We are here to take chances, and fail, and keep trying.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

For all things there is a place and time.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing.

Aye, well, we all play the cards we're dealt." "Some of us do. Some of us kill men with better cards and play theirs instead.

These are dangerous times alright, and yet danger and opportunity often walk hand in hand.

No price we can pay will achieve entrance into heaven, madam. The Lord has already paid that price for us all and requires only belief in that truth, as you surely know.' Will's smile didn't waver. 'However, we often have the opportunity to be used by the Lord and become an answer to prayer.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Don't waste your one beautiful life," Vivien said softly.

If my father hadn't come to America about 35 years ago, I'd be starving in Poland . . . I'd be sobbing in France . . . I'd be stealing in Greece . . . I'd be shivering in Belgrade . . . I'd be slaving in Frankfurt . . . I'd be hiding in Prague . . . I'd be buried in Russia. But here he was, alive and walking on his own two feet.

Don't worry about bitin' off more than you can chew. Your mouth is probably a whole lot bigger than you think.

Everything ends," she says. "That's nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.

There was no reason for what happened to you, Eddie. You could have died; you just didn't. It was dumb luck. Nobody chose you for anything. Which means, truly, that you can do anything.

Life is a mysterious and exciting affair and anything can be a thrill if you know how to look for it, and what to do with opportunity when it comes.