Quotes About Opportunity

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed, and now I had the opportunity to test myself.

De qué sirve tener talento, doctor, si no se tiene campo en el que aplicarlo?

Las cosas siempre aparecen cuando las necesitamos. —Eso no es verdad—replicó. —Sí que lo es. Sólo tienes que decidir si eres lo bastante fuerte y valiente como para aprovechar la oportunidad que se te presenta.

Lo que uno más lamenta es lo que alguna vez no tuvo el coraje de hacer

You see, the thing about dreams is that it's never really too late to make them come true.

Life was full of risks. Avoiding them might be comfortable, but was it really living?

He asked, Is there someone else in love with you? You're in luck, sir, there's been a cancellation.

In delay, there lies no plenty

There will always be a door to the light.

Everyone is going to America and no one has a way of getting there. Some folks have been sent back to Russia. Some have found work in Lemberg. Some have been sent on to Cracow.

I don't care what I'll be in America. I just want to get there. I'm dying to see the place. I've made up my mind to learn three things there: swimming, writing, and cigar smoking. I mean I can do all three already. But I'll do them better in America.

My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.

Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.

When I began making movies, the only crew jobs available to women were as script girls and in the editing department. As a result, I still think of movie crews as male. And in fact, they still predominantly are.

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the

every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.

Business is a game,' David told Kate, 'played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.

At the end of last season, I'd been a draft pick for the Buffalo Sabres, a National Hockey League team. By drafting me, they had secured the rights to me as a player, but it didn't mean I'd automatically make the team. To improve my chances to play pro hockey, I wanted to be heavier and stronger, so each summer day after working on my dad's cattle ranch, I pumped weights and dreamed about playing for the Sabres.

She swiftly disabused us of certain notions acquired at school. America is the land of equal opportunity. All men are brothers. The best things in life are free.

Good days are granted to sensible people, but the grandest of days are enjoyed by those who dare to act unwisely.