Bo Bennett Quotes

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

There are no dead ends, just detours.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

I'm a fighter, so when someone says 'no' to me, I try to figure out what I need to adjust to hear the yes.

Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

You don't have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That's what I want young girls to know - you can do anything you want. Just start.

While it's generally easier to stay the course, it's a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.

Never say never, always try to see if there is an opportunity to go around the problem if you can't go across it.

If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

It is not too late to take another path.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

Don't take 'no' for an answer. Keep knocking down walls until someone says 'yes.'

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.