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Grasp the opportunity to make each day exceptional.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.
— Plutarch
Life is the opportunity to create moments of wonder.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Open the doors of opportunity,Success is waiting there for you.
— Aditya Pandya
Opportunity is always under our feet. We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
It is only an opportunity if you respond to the opportunity.
— Linda Rawson
The universe is full of doors.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change in Peter's habits would make his wife's life radiant. But they all lived blindly, on, each day a day of emptiness, each of those precious days, so crowded with opportunities, and possibilities, and unheeded blessings, and presently life would be behind them, and their chances gone for ever.
— Elizabeth von Arnim
My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America.
— Jake Danishevsky, AfterTastes and Tales from Russia
Do not create opportunities for beasts and evils to take charge of your life.
— Sean F. Hogan, Painting Angels
There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Mirror
I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.
— Laura Amy Schlitz, The Hired Girl
For opportunity is nothing if you don't grab it by both hands.
— Sharon Biggs Waller, A Mad, Wicked Folly
Whenever we have opportunity to serve, we must serve with all our heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.
— Herbert V. Prochnow
Opportunity starts with a great education.
— Auliq Ice
You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Where there are problems, there are profits.
— Christmas Incorporated
If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself.
— Maxine Phillips
Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for.
— Andrena Sawyer
J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
When you succeed in life, You cannot be sure till you reach at the point you expect.
— Auliq Ice
Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.
— George Eliot
All resources in your possession is an opportunity for service.
— Sunday Adelaja
Life is an opportunity to serve.
— Sunday Adelaja
If opportunity doesn't come knocking at your door, build a brand.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
In a civilization when love is gone we turn to justice and when justice is gone we turn to power and when power is gone we turn to violence.
— Kare Anderson, Moving From Me to We
A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential.
— Sunday Adelaja
Moving right alongIn search of good timesAnd good news,With good friends you can't lose.This could become a habit.Opportunity just knocked,Let's reach out and grab it,Together we'll nab it,We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.
— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
Your gift will unlock doors that you prayed for God to open.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.
— Nelson Mandela
Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
— Debasish Mridha
As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Set a goal when you’re ready for it, make a plan, and stick with it.
— Auliq Ice
She felt vulnerable and alone and had a sense that a great opportunity was slipping through her fingers. Once again, she felt that life was not treating her as it treated other people: it gave her every chance to achieve something, and just when she was close to her objective, the ground opened up and swallowed her. That's how it had been with her studies, with certain boyfriends, with certain dreams she had never shared with anyone.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
We always get help we ask for. "Knock and the door will open" Make sure it's the right door.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Every opportunity has challenges and when you overcome it, it turns to rewards.
— Nazim Ambalath
God gives absolutely everybody the opportunity to be successful in life.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we rely on our own strength, God’s opportunities become inaccessible to us
— Sunday Adelaja
This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Life is a mansion of opportunity: love is the key.
— Debasish Mridha
A key to manifestation is that when the doors of opportunity open, you have to walk through them.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time.
— Kishore Bansal
Danger is opportunity’s seer.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Not every hard worker can be a leader
— Patrick Tala
When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity
— Brené Brown
Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out? Nothing.
— Ari Gold
Soon we will be in heaven and that opportunity will be over, let us not regret that we could have loved the brethren more.
— Greg  Gordon
I am telling you now: I might be young, but I am good. I work hard, and I'm a good person. I know what's right. I know what's wrong. And if you give me this chance-- if you just give me one shot to show you how good I can be, how hard I work, how much I believe in doing the right thing -- I won't let you down. I promise.
— Matt Fraction, Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman
When you open a door for others, you sometimes open doors for yourself.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
There was always an opportunity in crisis, however desperate things seemed.
— Gemma Malley, The Legacy
One win is not enough to rest on our oars especially where there is room and opportunity for other wins and successes.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air.
— Matt Micros, The Chameleon
Be so good with your craft to the point that you would no longer have to beg for opportunities.
...if life never changed, there would be no room for good things that are still to happen.
— Elizabeth Harmon, Pairing Off
We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
— Seneca
Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.
— Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Life could snatch away the things you treasured, and there was no getting them back. She began to feel an urgency, a need to seize an opportunity. Before anyone else did.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.
— Debasish Mridha
Intuitions are messenger of opportunities. Hit them with your ability.
— Kishore Bansal
This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things.
— Kishore Bansal
Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
— Ryan Lilly
Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.
— Ryan Lilly
Opportunity is like a door; it is always open, but you have to be prepared to enter through it.
— Debasish Mridha
We are the prisoners of conformity. To get out of this prison, education is the only door and only opportunity.
— Debasish Mridha
When you live life connected to purpose, you don't have to chase opportunities, they come to you.
— Sue Fitzmaurice
There is always a solution to any problem.Find opportunities in any circumstance. Never become a victim.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is filled with endless opportunities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco's chief technology officer, was asked by The Huffington Post, "What's the most important lesson you've learned from a mistake you've made in the past?""I said no to a lot of opportunities when I was just starting out because I thought, 'That's not what my degree is in' or 'I don't know about that domain.' In retrospect, at a certain point it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
— Padmasree Warrior
We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It’s not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
I was walking after opportunities in my life, but I forgot that every second of my life is an opportunity.
— Rishad sakhi
Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.
— Rob Lowe, Love Life
He knocks on doors and stands there. You’d be surprised how few doors get answered
— Andrew Kaufman, All My Friends are Superheroes
Sometimes you need to go through many small doors, to get to that big door of opportunity.
— Anthony Liccione
I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.
— David P. Ingerson
Dare to seize every opportunity on your life's journey.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls
I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing’s sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.
— Daya Kudari
God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story
—  it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a ball point and this is just the beginning.
I don’t think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.
— Daya Kudari
Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that’s luck I guess.
— Daya Kudari
Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
How would you complete with people who are more talented, more popular, who get better training, better mentoring and who get their share of luck, without some luck?
— Daya Kudari
Every once in life everyone has one time opportunity. So take your best shot or go to your mama and cry your ass off.
— Revaz Eristavi
There’s randomness and there’s the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man.
— Daya Kudari
Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.
— Daya Kudari
Life is full of great opportunities.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
If you are still breathing, you are not a looser as you still have opportunity to bring change.
— Rishi Bakshi
No matter how many times you get sunk in life, but there have been always a new hope and opportunity to rise.
— Anshul Dubey
If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.
— W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.
— Anthony Liccione
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.
— Maxwell Maltz
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
— Walter Chrysler
Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.
— Mike Rosen
Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
— Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode
Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.
— Tammy L. Kubasko, My Gift to You: The Comfort Zone
The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it.
— Murad S. Shah
If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.
— Keely Barton
Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.
— Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya
Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extremely small, if we measure it from the viewpoint of modern scientific achievements or even by the standards of England in the late eighteenth century. However, it must be borne in mind that to be held back at one stage means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person is forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education, it is no reflection on him that he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of greatest importance. Pg. 105
— Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.
— Kartik Mehta
Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.
— Daniel Willey
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.
— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
— Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
The world is in sore need of good listeners. And in our own lives, it’s amazing to recognize just how valuable listening can be for us. How many mistakes have you made because you didn’t listen well? Personally, I’ve made many—and I’ve missed out on some wonderful opportunities because I was more interested in sharing what I had to say than I was in listening to what someone else had to say.
— Tom Walsh, Just for Today, The Expanded Edition
One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.
— George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.
— Mark Batterson, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Be fueled by the opportunities of today. Do not be passive in your life. Be courageous in driving forward in this journey of life. I know people will try to push you back. I know life will challenge you to find refuge in the past. I know the present induces fear. Do not be fooled into backwards living. Be courageous enough to keep moving forward.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Never pass up a valuable opportunity, because regret can last a lifetime.
— Kim Yannayon
Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.
— Elizabeth George
If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.
— Saji Ijiyemi, Don't Die Sitting
Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.
— Michael Pryor, Heart of Gold
what risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise
— Ratan Jeet
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door and open it, stop waiting around for someone to give it to you
— Tilica Haridat
Allowing yourself to be a conduitfor opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortunecannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknownsaying, she has rarely been known to knock
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
— Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater
I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed falls upon another until it feels like the world is collapsing around me. But when I yield, when I surrender to the necessary change, I can stand back and look at the beautiful picture created by what seemed to be my world falling apart.
— Stella Payton
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.
— Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping
—  they called it opportunity.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Leaders don't need a path. They make one.
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.
— Stephan Labossiere
Behind every no entry sign there's a door.
— Peter Jones, How to do everything and be happy
If you come into contact with that rare once in a lifetime opportunity, instantly own it, remember all it takes is a slight pondering moment for a stake to be placed, the opportunity can and will easily be claimed by another.
— Victoria Addino
When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried.
— Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
— Albert Einstein
In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.
— Charles Udall
A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind
— Eve Berlin, Desire's Edge
One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.” Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. " Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't do anything but self destruct," he later said
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars
God does not ask your abilityOr your inability.He asks only your availability.
— Mary Kay Ash
Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Why I Make Myself Unhappy
Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Difficult situations create exploitable opportunities for those strong enough to persevere.
— Chad Bowen
Change is nature’s way of offering us the opportunity to explore the parameters of our humanity and potential. Don’t fight it, embrace it. There is a magical experience awaiting those who embrace this natural process.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"!
— Sanjo Jendayi
I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity.
— Shellie M. Saunders
Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
— Oprah Winfrey
You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.
— Steph Bowe, Girl Saves Boy
Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
— Napoleon Hill
It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.
— Jyoti Arora, Dream's Sake
Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.
— Nicko Widjaja
Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.
— Jyoti Arora, Dream's Sake
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.
— Earl Nightingale
That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.
— Kristin Hannah, Angel Falls
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.
— Wallace D. Wattles
I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something
— Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
— Idries Shah, Reflections
In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.
— S.L. Coelho
Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?
— Orrin Woodward
It's not who, it's when
— Alejandro Taubas
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.
— Pollyanna Darling
..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.
— Andy Stanley, Fields Of Gold
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
— Nicholas Kristof
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
what's your name?"what?" i asked, squinting at the light.your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.you know my name."I want you to tell me."Rose. Rose Hathaway."Do you know your birthday?"Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone."You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, my stunning beauty has clouded your mind.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god."He blinked. "What?""Uh, nothing.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . itwas all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.
— Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy.Hey, no one said high school was easy.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
That's pretty hot," he said."Punching me in the eye?""Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports.""I'm sure you are.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things.""Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?""Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly."Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?""She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't""Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him"His smile grew, "I did.
— Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword.""I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him.""You have.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Sweat isn't a bad thing," he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. "Some of the best things in life happen while your sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it and it gets old and stale, it turns pretty gross. But on a beautiful women? Intoxicating. If you could smell things like a vampire does, you'd know what I'm talking about. Most people mess it all up and drown themselves in perfume. Perfume can be good...especially if you get one that goes with your chemistry. But you only need a hint. Mix about 20 percent of that with 80 percent of your own perspiration...mmm." He tilted his head to the side and looked at me. "Dead sexy.
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?""No""No?""No.
— Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
With a few swift steps, Adrian stood in front of me again. The wall was only a couple inches behind me, and I had nowhere to go. He made no threatening moves, but he did clasp my hands and hold them to his chest while leaning down to me.“No, you will listen. For once, you’re going to hear something that doesn’t fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Because this isn’t reasonable. If you’re terrified, believe me—this scares the hell out of me, too. You asked about Rose? I tried to be a better person for her—but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. I said it on Halloween and meant every word: you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don’t even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.
— Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily
While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The fact is, the man who’d begotten me didn’t want me. In his eyes I should never have been born. And perhaps that would’ve been best. As it was, my existence had proven to be nothing more than a nuisance for everyone. I angered my father, brought strife upon my mother, irritated my teachers, and annoyed the other children who were forced to interact with me in school. All by simply being. 	When you aren’t loved, you aren’t real. Life is cold, like the stone against my palm.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
There are people who are never content, never appeased, forever dissatisfied—who continually look to what escapes them, convincing themselves that if only they could attain that one desire outside of reach they would be happy.  It seems almost pointless to give to these people because their eyes immediately shift from the gift to stare miserably at the portion held back.  Their wants, demands, expectations, appetites are never satiated, thus they refuse to be happy.  And you cannot make them so.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categoriesthat restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.
— Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge are deceitful brothers—vile, beguiling demons promising justifiable compensation to a pained soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily fester away all else of worth remaining.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right
—  they are contention over degrees of wrongness.
I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, hence she steals all the attention I was sulking after.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
When you begin to care too much about what everyone else says, your confidence shrinks and you start to feel like insignificant, little Jack in a strange land of intimidating giants. But when you come to realize that opinions are as diverse and plentiful as dried beans, you might reach the conclusion that your own is of the greatest worth. That's when your confidence grows, and soon you find yourself striding like Gandalf the wondrous wizard among common hobbits in the shire. Respecting your own opinion is the magic that transforms both you and your world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Face it―nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn't diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so that they don't feel like nobody cares.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Easter
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The description of Huck’s father grabbed my full attention, and I glanced up at the book in my teacher’s hand as if to double check. My eyes bulged reflexively. Huck’s father was an abusive drunk just like mine. The boy was hopeful that a corpse found near the river was actually his dad, but it turned out not to be. It was spooky how high my hopes rose for the boy, and then sank so utterly low when the body was discovered to be a female in disguise. I should’ve mourned for the woman, but it was the boy I felt bad for.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
Smile wide to receive many smiles in return. But if you want a good laugh, smirk like a wicked, little imp and watch the range of expressions you're flashed.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
It isn’t always true that a critical end justifies desperate means.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
I squinted at the western sky behind Thaddeus, a blood-red smear melting into blackness. Twisting my neck, I glanced the opposite direction. My teeth clenched at a magnified, round moon nearly as scarlet as the portending sunset, its luminous face half masked by hazy cloud cover. Hatred, vengeance, anger……such emotions coursed through my veins in a poisonous concoction that muddied my mind, impelling me to grip my sword tighter and fight with every ounce of strength I possessed against those who threatened my family - my kind. Currently, Thaddeus was behaving as such a threat, using his powers of persuasion to condone human sacrifice for some outrageously perceived good. He wanted an offering for the monsters; a desperate, futile offering of human flesh that would in no way protect the other villagers from being mauled as he promised.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her eyes to sniff at its contents. A smile told him it smelled delicious, but she didn’t open the container to pinch off a sample. Instead, the basket lowered to swing at her side as it had previously done.	All at once the air was filled with soft singing--a sweet, merry tune comprised of ludicrous lyrics. It was impossible not to grin at the 
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Key Keeper
And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth between two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked flat and captured. No laughter rose from behind bars because those in the birdcage knew what was in store. They would soon be lunch for a couple of hungry ogres. 	Now you might be thinking—didn’t Gavin call it fun when he was swallowed by a wolf earlier? And didn’t he tell that raven-haired girl it doesn’t hurt to be swallowed whole by a bear? All true, all true. But here’s a secret you might not 
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Secrets of a Noble Key Keeper
Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I let my sword slip to the ground, and for the second time I stood unarmed in the presence of werewolves.Kresh put his lips to my forehead, and my skin burned beneath his kiss. When his hands repositioned to take me by the waist, my breathing—already shallow—ceased entirely. Then his lips fell on mine and I was suddenly everything he claimed me to be—his mate, his wife, his world.The taste of him seemed mysteriously new and old at the same time. Every bit of tension eased as if internally I had come home again, and yet a sense of foreignness made our connection a sweet venture. My breast was afire as he continued to grasp my hips, keeping me close. I burned for him as if vampire venom were coursing through every inch of me. The man was a constellation of suns in my desire, unlike Thaddeus who hardly equaled a speck of stardust. The thought of that coward reminded me of grim news. It took every bit of willpower I possessed to tear my lips away from what they craved, and yet I remained a submissive puddle in this werewolf’s arms.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Derian pulled the blanket snug around himself. “This is my added assurance.” Eena’s nose wrinkled. “It’s your what?” “If you recall the last time we were here standing in this very spot, you pelted me with neumberries.” He held up a single berry before popping it into his mouth. “I doubt you would risk soiling your blanket, so I figure wrapping it around me this way I’m pretty much assured safety from any potential attack.” He winked playfully, and she laughed out loud. “I’m afraid you don’t know me half as well as you think,” she announced. Aiming low, she flung a sizable berry at his calve. It hit its mark.“Whoa, whoa!” He lowered the blanket to cover his legs. “You can’t hide yourself entirely, Derian,” she said, aiming for his face. He ducked, raising the blanket like a shield in the process.Another round of ammunition pelted his ankles before he decided it was time to fight back. Eena found herself bound up in her own blanket, arms wrapped securely at her sides. She laughed nonstop, unable to move within his strong hold. Derian leaned forward until their noses touched, and then he kissed her giggles silent. He kept her in the blanket, snug and close to him, but Eena managed to wriggle an arm free and drape it around his neck, holding his lips in reach. She uttered a quick count in between kisses.“Seven,” she breathed.Derian paused, his mouth a whisper away from hers. It tickled when he spoke. “No, no, Eena.”“No what?”“No counting. Not today. No ground rules.”She barely uttered a partial “’kay” before his mouth covered hers again. His hot breath tasted like breakfast. He fixed his hands on each side of her face, and the blanket fell to the ground. As the intensity of their kisses grew hungry, he gripped her cheeks more securely. Eena could feel the air electrifying around them. Her heartbeat drummed—excited and anxious. “Derian…” she breathed. But he didn’t stop. She felt his hand move to support her neck while the other slid down her back, urging her closer. She brought her arms together and pressed against his chest, somewhat objecting to the intimacy.“Derian…” she tried again. But he covered her mouth with his own.She pushed more firmly against him without success. Her protest weakened as his kisses softened. The fervor subsided, and she could feel her wild pulse even out. Amidst a string of supple kisses, Derian’s breathing slowed. He planted his lips on her forehead for a moment before squeezing her tenderly. She snuggled up against his warm chest. “One ground rule,” he whispered in her ear. “We stop when you say ‘when.’”“When,” she uttered.“Okay,” he agreed.Then, as if the thought had just occurred to her, she stepped back to look up questioningly at the captain. “Wasn’t there a leftover sandwich in that basket from last night?”His lips formed a guilty smile as he confessed, “Yes—and it was delicious.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Two Sisters
Turn around….you’ve got grass and dead flowers…”My fingers naturally began to comb through my long, black strands, shaking things loose as Sarti carefully removed more stubborn pieces. The flowers had been left over from my forced marriage to Thaddeus. The grass, from a sensual night with Kresh the eve of my honeymoon. Devilish irony.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Kresh kept silent beside me as Baron rehearsed his deadly plan. I listened with my eyes aimed at the horizon, witnessing the night consume a final red vein of daylight. It struck me that nightfall always drowned the sunset. Never did the sun resurface from where it sank, nor would it ever.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
Annoyances are strangely not so annoying when the person responsible has endeared himself to you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
What are you most thankful for?” she asked.My reply came easily. “Being too blessed to have any hope of answering that question.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Some birthdays make you happy.Some birthdays bring you down.Some birthdays make you jump for joyWhile others paint a frown.Regardless of your feelingsOr if you’re far or near,The earth was blessed this special dayWhen Heaven placed you here.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Life’s journey doesn’t start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid out for us to observe before setting foot on the path. No. Life’s journey begins on a low road, in a valley, or even down inside a pit where the trail beyond can only be seen in short stretches, and any obstacles are met as they come. This makes life trying, even scary at times. Have faith that God gave you this life, and hence it is worth seeing through to the end of the trail.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Thank you for the day and night,for rainy spells and summer’s light.Thank you for the skies of blueand puffy clouds in grayish hue.Thank you for the gigglefestsand midnight’s cloak to hasten rest.Thank you for tomorrow newand yesterday’s tomorrow too.Thank you for “I’m glad we met”and also for “we haven’t yet.”Thank you for the peace of mind a grateful soul doth always find.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Maybe Christmas is more than a day to receive. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, is a day to believe.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The jack-o-lantern follows me with tapered, glowing eyes.His yellow teeth grin evily. His cackle I despise.But I shall have the final laugh when Halloween is through.This pumpkin king I’ll split in half to make a pie for two.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The hero isn’t the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame—deserved or not—and apologize to save a relationship.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Just say “I’m sorry.” It’s not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good—if not better—in a whisper. So just say it; say “I’m sorry.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I’m sorry. Oh, what simple words are these!I’m sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ease!But nay, in barring up the way,“I’ll die first” are the words you say.I’m sorry, woe is all pride guarantees.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Go put on your mask.Say 'trick-or-treat' in costume.It’s All Hallows Eve.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons