Quotes About Opportunity

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

Apa gunanya memiliki kemampuan, Dokter, kalau tak ada tempat untuk melampiaskannya?

Well, I was never in luck's way long.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world.

Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Otrpjet ?u napore školovanja, otrpjet ?u sve muke, samo neka mi se pruži prilika privu?i pozornost muškarca kao što je predsjednik.

Yo sólo espero que vayas por la vida con los ojos abiertos. Si no pierdes de vista tu destino, todos los momentos de la vida se convierten en una oportunidad para aproximarte a él Nobu

Ako uvijek imaš na umu svoju sudbinu, na svaki ?eš trenutak u životu gledati kao na priliku da se malo više približiš svome cilju.

Pumpkin was a girl who looked as if she could grow fat quickly, given the chance.

What standards are those, really? I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Thus one should not underestimate ripeness as a factor facilitating discoveries which, as the saying goes, are 'in the air'-meaning, that the various components which will go into the new synthesis are all lying around and only waiting for the trigger-action of chance, or the catalysing action of an exceptional brain, to be assembled and welded together. If one opportunity is missed, another will occur.

Good things can be created from bad.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I've done is waste my life.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been

Each day is a little life.

Far-sighted, rational deliberation usually comes out in favour of one decision, while immediate inclination comes out for the other. As long as we have to be passive, the balance seems tilted in favour of reason; but we can see in advance how strongly we will be pulled by the other side when the opportunity for acting arises.

The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man. His happiness lay both in the possession of those great qualities which won him fame, and in the opportunity that was granted him of developing them–the leisure he had to act as he pleased, to dedicate himself to his favorite pursuits. It is only work done from the heart that ever gains the laurel

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone....