Quotes About Opportunity

Life responds when we risk

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

risks must be taken . . . the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing . . . he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. . . . / only a person who risks is free." Taking

Fear keeps people from the risk associated with doing their best.

This visualisation could be used when helping a client through depression. It gives clients the opportunity to look at other points of view, not just their existing one. Helping clients to find a positive outlook could be one more step in their moving forward in life's journey.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.

The Chinese character for "crisis," he pointed out to me, combines the characters for "danger" and "opportunity.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off the ambitious, the poor, and the abused from so many other nations, the ability we seem to have to be noble and heroic at the same time as we are being arrogant and stupid.

You can never tell you the mountain will allow and who it will not.

When my father died we did not have the funds to keep all three of us in school. The tuition is very expensive. My sisters are still in school and I am here to find work so they can stay there. Without a formal education there is no future for girls in Kathmandu. I would like to go back to school myself, but it is unlikely I will be able to. It is more important that my sisters attend school than it is for me." Sun-jo

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.

Tuomet mes iš tikr?j? buvome pasiek? dugn? - nesakau "prarajos", nes nuo tada patyriau, kad praraja dugno neturi ir kad mes visi galim mušti gylio rekordus, niekada neišsemdami tos ?domios institucijos galimybi?.

Dia prova di prudenza, è sempre una buona scusa. Oppure parta con me domani. Non faccia la sciocchezza di perdersi qualcosa per eccesso di esperienza. Parta con me, dia una possibilità all'impossibile. Non ha idea di quanto l'impossibile non ne possa più, e a che punto abbia bisogno di noi.

Investors have very short memories.

Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it.