Quotes About Opportunity

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

Exceptional success requires exceptional circumstances. Wayne Smith, former All Blacks assistant coach

The morning sleeper Has much undone The quick will catch the prize.

You tried to stick your cock in his mouth." "I panicked. I thought it might be my only chance.

You ain't never going to get rich that way, Johnson. And there's money in that dick. Lots of money.

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I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

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

they are missing the short- and long-term benefits of serendipitous interactions.

Call it fate, call it luck, but we Lankshire men think the more prepared we are the luckier we get, if you get my meaning.

But a Vertical Church teaches its people to judge every circumstance and opportunity in terms of its potential to reveal "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Vertical Church teaches its people to judge every circumstance and opportunity in terms of its potential to reveal "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."21 That is the goal for every person in our church

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Yes, we were looking for a Faith spin-off, but then Faith backed down. Eliza got a really wonderful offer over on Fox in a show, and, for reasons I didn't talk to her about, she decided to go there, and everyone respects that.

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

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

To-morrow — oh, 'twill never be, If we should live a thousand years! Our time is all to-day, to-day, The same, though changed; and while it flies With still small voice the moments say: "To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise."

We look on childhood and youth as those "times of life" rich with possibility only because there still seem to remain so many paths open to a successful outcome. Each year that passes, however, increases the competitive value of making strategically correct decisions. The errors of childhood can be more easily amended than those of adulthood.

You get one life and it rolls out like a long hallway carpet. It begins on the day you are born and keeps on rolling until you drop. There's no refresh button, no start-over option.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain

There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path." Still

Books are keys that open many doors.