Embracing Opportunities Quotes

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.

Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

I just see the opportunities and I go for them. I don't want to play my career safe. I've had my successes and I've had a few failures, too. But you just keep going and do the best that you can. That's what I've learned.

Every day's a blessing, so I'm just out there throwing my best.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Step forward, use your voice, get out in the world, and live!

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

I don't regret anything, not even leaving Boca because it was the time to do so.

The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.