Quotes About Opportunity

It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

There is an advantage in every disadvantage and a gift in every problem.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Un hombre sin pasado puede forjar cualquier futuro»

Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo

Aquí hay muchas personas que no salen nunca. Depende de lo que hiciste para que te trajeran aquí. Por supuesto, también hay muchos que no quieren salir, aunque podrían si lo pidieran. Sólo que nunca lo piden

Nadie puede volver a empezar, por lo menos que yo sepa. Todos decimos que queremos encontrar una manera de empezar la vida de nuevo, pero las cosas no son así.

A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.

becomes a competitive advantage when it

I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didnt manage.

But there is one thing that I've learned about luck. It rears its head as an opportunity, not a gift, and what seems to separate the lucky from the unlucky is the willingness to take Lady Luck for a ride.

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

The 2nd time leads to the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th time, I feel so alive, it won't last but it's alright

Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries." He thought

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

I went to Harvard because I got in. This is not the best reason to pick a college,

William Frederick 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, hunter, Indian-fighter and showman, joined the Pony Express – the West's legendary mail service – at the age of fourteen, in response to an ad which ran: 'WANTED young skinny wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Wages $25 a week.

Delays breed dangers.