Quotes About Opportunity

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today!

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.

Mrs Kerslake: but if there is no chance of being offered a place at Oxford, surely-? Simon Kerslake: Thats not what i said Mother, I shall be an undergraduate at Oxford by the first day of term

I was in a fair way to win, now, for it was a dazzling opportunity for an Arab. He pondered a moment, and would have done it, I think, but his mother arrived, then, and interfered. Her tears moved me—I never can look upon the tears of woman with indifference—and I said I would give her a hundred to jump off, too.

Bundan 20 y?l sonra, yapt?klar?ndan çok yapmad???n ÅŸeylerden piÅŸmanl?k duyacaks?n.

Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.

men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This

EÄŸer kazan?rsam benim imkânlar?m dâhilindeki istediÄŸiniz herhangi bir görevi elde edebileceksiniz... herhangi bir görev derken, yani, aÅŸina olduÄŸunuzu ve liyakatle doldurabileceÄŸinizi kan?tlayabileceÄŸiniz bir mevki demek istiyorum.

Tra vent'anni sarete più delusi per le cose che non avete fatto che per quelle che avete fatto. Quindi mollate le cime. Allontanatevi dal porto sicuro. Prendete con le vostre vele i venti. Esplorate. Sognate. Scoprite

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

The spider looks for the merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace.

just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; taxation had been equalized. The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.

Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçus par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.

Explore. Dream. Discover.