Quotes and Sayings about Chances & Opportunities

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait for too long, you'll miss them.

Good strategists sieze opprotunities.
Great strategists make their own.

One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

All you ever need in life is a opportunity. A chance. Rest depends on what you do with it.

Every accident, properly viewed, is an opportunity.

If you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.

Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

There is no such thing as bad ideas. Just poorly executed awesome ideas.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

If you give it your all, there's nothing to blame yourself for.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

How others see you is not important. How you see yourself is everything.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you are happy, happiness will come to you. Because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

I stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

It kills me sometimes how people die.

For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.

Pittsburgh! Thankful for the opportunity and the ability to live out my dream. Nothing but love! Quack!

Donovan: "You don't seem alarmed."
Abel: "Would it help?"

While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last.

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Do or do not. There is no try.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.