Quotes About Opportunity

Take a man who has failed at everything, give him a final chance, show him trust, lead him to one success, and there is a sudden confidence that will lead to the next success. Soon they will believe they are unbeatable, and become unbeatable

The Tippoo should have killed you when he had the chance. We all make mistakes, sir.

In madness lies change, in change is opportunity and in opportunity are riches.

in uncertainty lies opportunity.

To gain everything, a man must risk everything.

Everything's bigger better, or worse in London. That's just the way of it.

When you get to the Otherworld, boy' – he had turned back to me – 'you won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by.

Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy.

privilege is about context and circumstance

Pensei que, quando se deixa passar o momento certo, quando alguém recusou algo tempo de mais, quando nos é recusado algo tempo de mais, esse algo chega forçosamente demasiado tarde mesmo que seja realmente desejado com força e acolhido com alegria.

Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

Así es la vida, nunca le sacarás todo el partido a lo que te ha tocado si no lo aceptas

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Aber gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

Socialism as a panacea seems to me to be mistaken in this way, since it is too ready to suppose that better economic conditions will of themselves make men happy. It is not only more material goods that men need, but more freedom, more self-direction, more outlet for creativeness, more opportunity for the joy of life, more voluntary coöperation, and less involuntary subservience to purposes not their own.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right distributed throughout the community

Did you not take the opportunity to bathe, gentlemen? Valentina questioned them, trying to take her mind off her body, which felt unusually sensitive in this sultry climate. The silk of her gown seemed to rub against her nipples with every breath.

Has my mother not always told me that when one door closes another opens?

I am incapable of a profound remark on the workings of Destiny. It seems to get up early and go to bed very late, and it acts most generously toward the people who nudge it off the road whenever they meet it.

Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

She learned to catch a moment in her hand before it flew away and hold it tightly while she had the chance.

But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had.