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Quotes About Opportunity

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
~ Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
One thing I've learned: you never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
~ Hilary Swank
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
~ Marco Rubio
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
~ Peter Gallagher
In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.
~ Dennis Flanagan
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
~ Bear Grylls
To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
~ Don Rickles
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I have a second chance on life.
~ Katy Perry
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
~ Sean O'Casey
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
~ Richard Lugar
There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.
~ Mary Hoffman, City of Flowers
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Bleeds
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
~ Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.
~ Andre Agassi
To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.
~ Brian Tracy
Life is an adventure or nothing
~ Helen Keller
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
~ John Bytheway
Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
Life is too short to sleep it all away!
~ Mary Engelbreit
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
~ Maureen Forrester
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
~ Natalia Makarova