Quotes About Opportunity

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

Expand your sense of the possible.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Don't waste another day of your life.

The more you have of a rational knowledge of divine things, the more opportunity will there be, when the Spirit shall be breathed into your heart, to see the excellency of these things, and to taste the sweetness of them.

For the United States, however, trading with China not only saved but helped shape the new republic. America's discovery of the China market was integral to the rise of the United States. For the Chinese, America also meant opportunity—for their officials, for their showmen, and for one globally minded businessman.

People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ~ Peter Drucker

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place

a fim de tratar as pessoas igualitariamente, a sociedade deve dar atenção àqueles com menos dotes inatos e aos oriundos de posições sociais menos favoráveis. A ideia é de reparar o desvio das contingências na direção da igualdade

Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.

But in More Stock Investing For Beginners we get into what I call the Warren Buffett mindset. It goes something like this. Just because the stock is selling for $ 5.17 right now doesn't mean you can't put an order in for $ 5.00.

Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Finally, at the praiseworthy end of Edmondson's spectrum, we find intelligent failures. These are hypothesis tests and exploratory tests that open up potentials, and treat failure as an opportunity to learn rather than something to be avoided.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

While a free market doesn't produce equal outcomes, it produces better outcomes.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.

the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.