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Quotes About Opportunity

Time is the only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune.
~ Honore de Balzac
I always tell people when it's time to make a decision to stay or go [at a job], if it's a difficult decision, you should stay. If it's an easy decision, you should go.
~ J. A. Adande
Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.
~ Jack Welch
I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.
~ Jacoby Ellsbury
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
~ James Franco
Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.
~ Jane Austen
At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.
~ Jill Stein
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
~ John Flavel
Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.
~ John Lackey
You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
~ John Ortberg
The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.
~ Joshua Harris
The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.
~ Kenneth More
There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done.
~ Kenny Rogers
I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.
~ Khaled Hosseini
When I was young, it was an exciting time to be in New York.
~ Kiki Smith
I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
~ Lee Child
you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.
~ Linda L. Richards
Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.
~ Maggie Steber
You'd be surprised how much free time I have.
~ Malcolm Rifkind
The one real thing that money buys - Time.
~ Marita Bonner
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
~ Mark Twain
I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
~ Michael Caine
Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.
~ Michael Caine
Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.
~ Michelle Moran