Quotes About Opportunity

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

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

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

Sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails, explore, dream, discover.

Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

there's no second ive lived you can't call your own

Les gens veulent toujours des experts, mais parfois ils ont la chance de tomber sur un débutant.

reminding him of the years he missed.

Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.

One wild card was yet to be played.

Never leave anything out to dry as the sun comes up for the new year.

La ladrona de libros había dado su primer golpe: sería el comienzo de una ilustre carrera.

Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.

Und es sollte mir einmal mehr beweisen, dass eine Gelegenheit geradewegs zu einer anderen führt, genauso wie ein Risiko ein weiteres nach sich zieht, ein Leben ein anderes und ein Tod den nächsten.

That paper-- it sits there, open at the employment section. It sits there like a war, and each small advertisement is another trench for a person to dive into. To hope and fight in.

How many people get this chance? And of those few, how many actually take it?

Se dio cuenta de que era mucho más fácil hallarse a las puertas de algo que haberlas cruzado.

As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck.

And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

I'm ready now." If he'd intervened, it might have