Quotes About Opportunity

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

Without money of one's own in a capitalist society, there is no such thing as independence.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

One day she say to me, Well, Miss Celie, I believe it time for me to go. When? I ast. Early next month, she say. June. June a good time to go off into the world.

June. June is a good time to go off into the world.

When something can't be fixed then the question is what can we build instead?

How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.

But, in this life, we have too few chances of happiness to throw any away.

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

The challenge and chance to learn is its own reward. It is usually not difficult to figure out ways of offering challenge. Asking your potential allies to join the problem-solving group or passing them a tough piece of your project are ways to pay in the currency of challenge. (If the person is competent, you probably get back more than expected.)

Institutionalised children, like other vulnerable populations including prisoners, soldiers, hospital patients and those with mental illness, we re an attractive wellspring of opportunity for enterprising doctors and scientists.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.

Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Amazing how far we had come. A few days ago, I had been surprised to see Rei and Valene accepted as dancers in the nest; now anyone who wanted a part in this project was welcome. We had achieved half the goal of Wyvern's Court simply by dreaming of it.

If there ever was a place where one could start again, it was Manhattan. Move a block, and your enemies become your friends. Move ten blocks and you might never see anyone you knew again.

Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it!