Quotes About Opportunity

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

1) he will use the extra profits to expand his operations by buying more machines to make more coats; or (2) he will invest the extra profits in some other industry; or (3) he will spend the extra profits on increasing his own consumption. Whichever of these three courses he takes, he will increase employment.

It has been frequently said that many of the world's greatest inventions were due to accident. In a sense this is true. But the accident was prepared for by previous hard thinking. It would never have occurred had not this thinking taken place.

Therefore, for every public job created by the bridge project a private job has been destroyed somewhere else.

one occupation can expand only at the expense of all other occupations.

Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas

and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.

She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

Live all you can, it's a mistake not to

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to.

You can do a great many things if you're rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor. You can go and come, you can travel alone, you can have your own establishment: I mean of course if you'll take a companion—some decayed gentlewoman, with a darned cashmere and dyed hair, who paints on velvet.

The chance had come - it was an extraordinary one - on the day she first met Densher; and it was to the girl's lasting honour that she knew on the spot what she was in the presence of.

There is always a place for chance in things.

You can do a great many things if you are rich which would be severely criticised if you were poor

The world lay before her—she could do whatever she chose. There was a deep thrill in it all, but for the present her choice was tolerably discreet […].

Ah, things are always different from what they might be," said the old man. "If you wait for them to change you'll never do anything.

I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don't want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do.

What could be more dreary than final interviews? One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards.

They girded their loins, they felt as if the quarrel had only begun. They felt indeed more married than ever, inasmuch as what marriage had mainly suggested to them was the unbroken opportunity to quarrel.

He found all things come back to the question of what he personally might have been, how he might have led his life and turned out, if he had not so, at the outset, given it up.

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Over there you think of nothing but becoming President of the United States some day. Potentially every man is Presidential timber. Here it's different. Here every man is potentially a zero. If you become something or somebody it is an accident, a miracle.