Quotes About Opportunity

In my experience, luck is more output than input

Bellman nodded, smiling. "Even chance can bring justice?" "Exactly!" Grand Master said. "But it never hurts to nudge it in the right direction.

In my experience, you never get silver linings without clouds. Even then I knew enough of the world to understand that inner circles are always heavily fortified against newcomers, and royal favor always arouses jealousy.

What's first-best time to negotiate?" he asked. "When you're certain to lose. Then you may salvage something, right?

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.

Pain shared is pain divided, and you are only as sick as your secrets. In a debriefing, you have the opportunity to share those secrets and to share your pain as you come together to help each other through a traumatic event. Those who say that they do not

a bold act may prove to be a blunder. Nonetheless, it is a laudable error, not to be regarded on the same footing as others. Happy is the army where ill-timed boldness occurs frequently; it is a luxuriant weed, but indicates richness in the soil.

It has been said that we only get one spin at life, but once in a while we may get another. What we do with it will determine whether or not it is deserved.

Napoleon said, "The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!

If you keep a $495 car payment throughout your life, which is "normal," you miss the opportunity to save that money. If you invested $495 per month from age twenty-five to age sixty-five, a normal working lifetime, in the average mutual fund averaging 12 percent (the eighty-year stock market average), you would have $5,881,799.14 at age sixty-five. Hope you like the car!

Requiring nothing of a child gives them no opportunity for failure or success.

Henry Ford, who definitely had more than enough, said, "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN

Your largest wealth-building asset is your income. When you tie up your income, you lose. When you invest your income, you become wealthy and can do anything you want.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

out-of-bounds marker or the game is hard to play. One of the leading causes of small-business failure is success

investments are like manure. Left in one pile, it starts to stink. But when you spread it around, it grows things. I bet your financial guy never laid it out like that!

I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way. I knew somebody.

Where other people will see obstacles, even blank walls, you'll soon start to see pathways you can use to get where you want to go. It's awesome.

I could raise you to three hundred a week, and we'd leave the current room and board as part of it. How would that sound?" Indie thought it over. "And where would the office be? If it's here at your house, I can handle that, cause it lets me be here for Kenzie." "Of