Quotes About Opportunity

All we require is the will. The next few decades represent a final opportunity to build a stable home for ourselves and restore the rich, healthy and wonderful world that we inherited from our distant ancestors. Our future on the planet, the only place as far as we know where life of any kind exists, is at stake.

Invention accumulates. If you combine the diesel engine, GPS, and the echo sounder, the opportunities they create are not just added to one another, they are multiplied.

As the old saying goes, "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

His book was a bestseller, and by the end of the year, he had signed a lucrative deal to write three more.

A latte spurned is a fortune earned.

If you have $10,000 sitting in a savings or checking account earning only 1.0 percent annually when it could be earning 4.5 percent, you are cheating yourself out of $450 a year in interest. The way I see it, that's a plane ticket to Hawaii or a fancy dream night out on the town or more money in your retirement account! In other words, that so-called free checking account at the bank really isn't. Quite the contrary, it's costing you a fortune.

That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life?

I said earlier that being white was not just about skin color, but about security. That's what white privilege represents. White really means: safe.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Our story is not one of a perfect people, but it is a compelling account of people seeking religious and civil freedom, escaping oppression, pursuing opportunity, and often joining hands with diverse people to achieve common goals.

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult. — Hippocrates (460-400 B.C.)

Lanier University

The only time you stop run out of chances is when you stop taking them

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

You'll find that there's a strange freedom in letting go of your denials and fears. When you're prepared to accept that you are the one who makes things happen in your own life, you stop fearing the unknown and start realizing that you have control over every situation. It's up to you to make this work, which means that you have absolute opportunity to make sure it does.

When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. I have several stands.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

When I discipline, I am helping my people, teaching them and coaching them, to be the best they can be. When I see a gap between how they are performing and how they should be performing, I look at it as an opportunity to help them raise their game. It's another opportunity to serve them.