Opportunity - Quotes
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year`s Day.
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later!
To face a big opportunity is sometimes a lot like starring at the knees of a giraffe.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new.
Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest.
It`s always seemed to me, after all, that Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect upon what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in. I refer, of course, to money.
I think to be a well-rounded person, you have to experience good and bad, wonderful moments and pain. You need to meet people who have no exposure to kindness, who lack any opportunity and have no way out - like the homeless, the mentally ill - and you`ve got to learn empathy for them.
While you were soaking in self-pity over a misfortune, you might miss an opportunity for a redeeming triumph.
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, Heaven or Hell is born. Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: "I made some mistakes, but I wasn`t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task; his single and unique task. He will have to acknowledge the fact that even in suffering he is unique and alone in the universe. No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears his burden.
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Traditionally, Mother's Day is about thanking and honoring mothers. But this nontraditional tribute is a fine opportunity to tell my son and my daughter that I love being their mother - I always have and I always will, I am thankful that I was able to have children and be part of the miracle of life.