Quotes About Opportunity

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

My mother used to tell me that Heaven never seals off all exits.

You cannot refuse to eat just because there's a chance of being choked.

I'd never waste the hours of light in the darkness of slumber.

You can't learn about living unless you live. You can't live unless you take a chance; and your living is limited by the chances you take.

When fortune comes, do not enjoy all of it; when advantage comes, do not take all of it

I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.

How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?

You are one of the wealthiest women of the city, Gabriella.' I smiled. Because like, two months ago, I was begging Mom to borrow thirty bucks for a sweater. Rich. I could get into that.

It's all these choices that we could have made, the things we might have done. We see them with perfect clarity only long after the moment has passed. Just thirty seconds either way, and I wouldn't have this story to tell you. I wouldn't be the same person telling it.

The room was filled with the electricity of mistakes about to be made.

It's about biology, genetics, of course. But most of all, it's about what you do with what you're given.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

What's wrong with mistakes? Not that I'd know. No one's ever let me make any.

Second chances come when we least expect them.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose—it's like handing them a toad—but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it.

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

Det är inte många, fortsatte han högmodigt, som förstår hur makt ska brukas. Och inte många som vågar bruka den när de blir erbjudna den.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.