Quotes About Opportunity

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

There is always time for another last minute

So much universe, and so little time.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

Chances are where you find them

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, That's what I call sorted! Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

There would be a price... But if you were worried about the price, then why were you in the shop?

The second mouse gets the cheese!

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

Never promise to do the possible. Anyone could do the possible. You should promise to do the impossible, because sometimes the impossible was possible, if you could find the right way, and at least you could often extend the limits of the possible. And if you failed, well, it had been impossible.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Carpe Jugulum, read Agnes aloud. That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means- Go for the throat

When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.

SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIME Albert backed away nervously. 'And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?' he said. Death mounted his horse. I AM GOING TO SPEND IT.

In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself, said Detritus, awe and wonder in his voice. Truly, this a land of opportunity.

That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!