SparkPeople: Opportunity Quotes

“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”  See Quote with Translation

“If it is to be, it is up to me.”  See Quote with Translation

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”  See Quote with Translation

“Celebrate we will because life is short but sweet for certain.”  See Quote with Translation

“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”  See Quote with Translation

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”  See Quote with Translation

“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”  See Quote with Translation

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you�re still a rat.”  See Quote with Translation

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”  See Quote with Translation

“Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.”  See Quote with Translation

“Effective people are not problem-minded; they�re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”  See Quote with Translation

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”  See Quote with Translation

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”  See Quote with Translation

“I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything but I can do something. And, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do what I can.”  See Quote with Translation

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”  See Quote with Translation

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can�t find them, make them.”  See Quote with Translation

“Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training and some are not.”  See Quote with Translation

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”  See Quote with Translation

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.”  See Quote with Translation

“In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity not to be a coward.”  See Quote with Translation

“I�m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”  See Quote with Translation

“The present is what slips by us while we�re pondering the past and worrying about the future.”  See Quote with Translation