Quotes About Opportunity

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

just take the deal and get on

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and seeatshops

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

In 1950 there would be 31,707 male lawers in New York State. There would be 1,275 female lawyers in New York State. There would be 19 Negro women lawyers in New York State. Put otherwise, black women constituted about 6 10,000ths (0.06%) of all the state's layers. A proportion so small that it is less a minority than a rounding error.

What did you do with your life, Master Bran?" she demanded accusingly. "More to the point, what will you do with your life now that you have it back?

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

Because all the things you did not do cannot exist for you. Only the path that you chose exists as reality for you.

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

Each new friend gives rise to the possibility of anything!

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.

With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance.

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

One who swims with the tide and not the other side will benefit from the opportunity that flows.

If you can't quite make it as a high flier then join a trampoline club.