Quotes About Opportunity

Los altos quieren quedarse donde están; los medianos quieren arrebatarle su puesto a los altos; los bajos quieren abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en la que todos sean iguales.

Many of the people who came to us were of the kind who would be a nuisance anywhere but have special opportunities in a bookshop

Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally.

Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen.

The unwinding brings freedom, more than the world has ever granted, and to more kinds of people than ever before—freedom to go away, freedom to return, freedom to change your story, get your facts, get hired, get fired, get high, marry, divorce, go broke, begin again, start a business, have it both ways, take it to the limit, walk away from the ruins, succeed beyond your dreams and boast about it, fail abjectly and try again.

How could a college dropout find himself, at the age of twenty-six, a government-funded rocket scientist?

Our wise acts accompany us through life to please us and to help us. Just as surely, our unwise acts follow us to plague and torment us. Alas, they cannot be forgotten. In the front rank of the torments that do follow us are the memories of the things we should have done, of the opportunities which came to us and we took not.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. You

Opportunity waste no time on those who are unprepared.

a man's wealth is not in the purse he carries. A fat purse quickly empties if there be no golden stream to refill it. Arkad

Good luck, we do find, often follows opportunity but seldom comes otherwise.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow.

La oportunidad es una diosa arrogante que no malgasta el tiempo con los que no están preparados.

In tilling the soil, in honest trading, in all of man's occupations, there is opportunity to make a profit upon his efforts and his transactions. Perhaps not all the time will he be rewarded because sometimes his judgment may be faulty and other times the winds and the weather may defeat his efforts. Yet, if he persists, he may usually expect to realize his profit. This is so because the chances of profit are always in his favor.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess. She is ever anxious to aid those who please her. Men of action please her best . Action will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire. MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK                                                

Even at such labor did I myself earn my first coppers. Therefore, thou hast the same opportunity to build a fortune.

Never mind though our purses be as empty as the falcon's nest of a year ago. Let that not detain us. We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means. Come, let us go to Arkad and ask how we, also, may acquire incomes for ourselves.

Money is the medium by which earthly success is measured. Money makes possible the enjoyment of the best the earth affords.

Those eager to grasp opportunities for their betterment, do attract the interest of the good goddess.

From this day forth, I shall use his key. I shall start humbly as he started

Both the tales did illustrate how good luck follows opportunity. Herein lies a truth that many similar tales of good luck, won or lost, could not change. The truth is this: Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

because the chances of profit are always in his favor.

I am unable to name a single one who started his success from such a source (gambling at the casino).

I delayed making a decision until it was too late, much to my subsequent regret.