Quotes About Opportunity

No esperes a comprar bienes inmuebles; compra bienes inmuebles y espera».

Los ricos creen que «puedes tener el pastel y también comértelo». La gente de clase media cree que «el pastel es demasiado "rico", así que sólo tomaré un trocito». Los pobres no creen que merezcan pastel, de modo que piden una rosquilla, se centran en el agujero y se preguntan cómo es que no tienen «nada».

a setback is a setup for a comeback

Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.

We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass

What might have been and and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened...

What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Every moment is a fresh beginning

In a minute there is time  For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

Every moment is a fresh start

Anything is possible, but many things are highly unlikely. Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.

What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened.

Go now—return to the land of the living, if you can. You will not receive such a gift a second time.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

Time is a zero-sum game, a limited resource. Life is too short to do only what we have to do; it is barely long enough to do what we want to do.

While I do not believe that things necessarily happen for the best, I know that some people are able to make the best of things that happen.

I hate to feel squeamish almost as much as I hate to sit and think, both being sure-fire ways of getting into trouble. The only safe thing I know is to follow opportunity and leave the man behind to do the worrying. More people die lingering, ghastly deaths in arm-chairs and in bed than anywhere.

And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high place who have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers because the indolence of many is the opportunity of one. Such men lead multitudes astray.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

the same privilege

This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.

A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I'm a master. I'd never have to think about the games again.

Me," she said at last. "You should pick me." "But you're a girl." It was impossible to tell what he was thinking. "So?" she demanded. "Even Captain Sklaw says I'll be a swordsman yet. I'm as good an archer as Alex, and he's a boy and a squire. I'm a better tracker than Raoul. And have I ever failed you? Back there, or when you had the Fever—" "I'm glad you agree

You don't know what you can do till you're tested.