Quotes About Opportunity

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

there is the door,use it....

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it? Hers certainly is. One unlikely event after another, adding up to a rich, complicated whole. And who knows what's still to come?

but you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.

Life is a series of unlikely events, isn't it?

And tell Denise I'll come and get her when her phone call comes through." I still didn't go. Because all of a sudden I had the greatest idea of how to show the Tarrytown kids that I was an expert at something besides bandaging legs. "We had a class newspaper last year," I told

La vida es una buena aventura," I say, pleased with myself. I have picked up several Spanish phrases and this is one of them. "What does that mean?" Bitsy asks. "It means that life is a good adventure.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

Waqt khraab tha isme sawaal kesa Apne hi gair teh isme malaal kesa

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

and bear in mind that the only way in which you can assist the world in growing rich is by growing rich yourself through the creative method—not the competitive one.

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No

If you are not in an environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents you can move in due time; but meanwhile you can be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was President; as a backwoods lawyer he did common things in a great way, and that made him President. Had he waited until he reached Washington to begin to be

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.

the basis of all advancement must be the science of getting rich.

And further, the ability to do things in this certain way is not due solely to the possession of talent, for many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich.

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.

There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin NOW.