Quotes About Opportunity

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

Well, you're safe until you make another silly mistake,' the Spook added. 'And don't say you won't. He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job. - Spook

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

If you are poor that is not a detriment but an advantage. Poverty is an incentive to endeavor, not a drawback. Better to be born with a good, working brain in your head than with a gold spoon in your mouth. If the world had been depending on the so-called pets of fortune it would have deteriorated long ago.

Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1 percent, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success—or are they holding you back? —Clement Stone

You can't pull yourself up your bootstraps if you have no boots.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

The seed of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

You see how things might be and you aren't afraid to risk something to have it.

You have infinite riches within your reach

There is no virtue in poverty.

I think there is more opportunity now than ever before for women in politics if they will keep their ideals high and go in with the purpose of being of service rather than with the purpose of obtaining an office.

If the desire for Baptism is accompanied by perfect con trition, we have the so-called baptismus ftaminis, which forthwith justifies the sinner, provided, of course, that the desire is a true votum sacramenti, i. e. y that it implies a firm resolve to receive the Sacrament as soon as opportunity offers.

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

This could be our chance to make RiverClan great. If the other Clans are weak, we could rule over the whole forest.

She knew she would have to wait for Frecklewish to pass by on patrol; even then, Mapleshade would need the luck of StarClan to get the she-cat alone.

Big risks come with big rewards," she pressed. "And even bigger dangers.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.