Quotes About Opportunity

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you. We've had a streak of bad luck since we left Poker Flat,-you come along, and slap you get into it, too. If you can hold your cards right along you're all right.

I'm taking a fresh look at the American Dream and who gets to live it and who doesn't.

Ahora no es momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay

There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.

Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one's life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival.

Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.

Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.

Tener la posibilidad de decidir a qué quiere uno dedicar su vida es un gran privilegio.

But dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

A young student reflecting on his own experience wrote recently: When loneliness is haunting me with its possibility of being a threshold instead of a dead end, a new creation instead of a grave, a meeting place instead of an abyss, then time loses its desperate clutch on me. Then I no longer have to live in a frenzy of activity, overwhelmed and afraid for the missed opportunity.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, I love you, too.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

When you right or extricate a ducking businessman (take him out of chancery) and set him before the wind again, it is worth the while to look and see if he has any seed of success under him. Such a one you may know afar. He floats more slowly and steadily, carrying weight--and of his enterprise, expect results.

Now comes good sailing.

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students.

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?