Quotes about Opportunity

From wherever you are, you can go anywhere you want to go if you pick the right roads to travel.

God is passionate about good happening in this world, not evil. I'm convinced of that. God hates what happened here, Rae, the same way He hates divorce, and He hates injustice. But He won't destroy people to proactively prevent them from doing evil things, nor will He destroy them today after they have done evil things. Not until His great patience has extended to them every chance and opportunity there is to change and become good again.

Instead of asking "what's the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation or thing.

We cannot even imagine the complex forces behind every event that occurs in our lives. You never know how and when any life experience will reappear. You never know when a coincidence will lead to the opportunity of a lifetime.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

Follow your bliss, don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

As afraid as she was of loving and losing, she was even more afraid of losing the chance to love him.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

No one ever has the resources they need.