Quotes About Opportunity

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Every morning you are handed twenty-four golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with your priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted, you cannot get it back.

Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.

Semille wept not because she did something stupid; she wept because she *didn't* do something stupid. Sometimes, to do something stupid--to disobey your parents, to rush into battle, to speak out of turn, to ruin your life--is a far better thing to do than to do nothing at all.

Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

Opportunity is manufactured

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

Constraint inspired creativity. Blank spaces are difficult to fill, but the smallest prompt can send us in fantastic new directions

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

I also joined a fraternity. That's not a typo, I really did. One of the things about UNC that I didn't realize when I applied was that there were seven guys to every girl. And let's face it, those odds were not going to work much in my favor. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the all-women's campus, had five thousand women, and the only way I had a shot at meeting them was by joining a fraternity. I figured if I could get them in a confined space I might have a chance.

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

A new dawn has broken, has it not?

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new

I may be taking a risk on it, which is alright, because if you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.

Guys are like buses [...] Why get on the first one you see, when there's another one coming right after? Or something like that. Or maybe it's the opposite. I heard that on Oprah.

Tom finds a new skill: ping-pong. Why? Because he does what's put in front of him without judgment.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.