Quotes about Opportunity

Life begins at the end of our comfort zone. We go there by stretching.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

God prepares leaders in a crockpot, not a microwave. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparation, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.

Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.

You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn't start now.

If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

Preparation may not guarantee a win, but it sure puts you in position for one.

Mother Teresa observed, "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Education makes all the difference.

Failure is inevitable; learning is optional