Quotes About Opportunity

I've got three days available in July next year, she said. So, are we going to do this thing or not? —Calendar Girl

Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down tomorrow because the fruit's no good the next day. You'd better sell it now.

Computers for the masses, not the classes.

It was too easy to follow the path you were on, rather than looking for cross-trails that might take you somewhere scary.

What chances are you willing to take to get what you want? What dangers do your choices create for other people?

You see, there are moments in your life you are desperate to take back as soon as they happen, but the clock ticks, and they're gone. You make your choice, and an instant later, nothing is the same.

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

This guy was like a sailor who had studied the compass and found that there was a fifth direction in which one could sail." (Jerry Juhl on being offered a job with Muppets, Inc.)

Something you need most might be something you turn away from, something you turn away from might be something you regret, and something you regret, in the end, might cost you the one chance you ever had.

O Karma não é um castigo,mas antes uma oportunidade de crescimento. Mesmo que as experiências sejam difíceis e dolorosas, elas não são uma retribuição. São apenas a via para aprender a lição que precisamos de aprender. Meio de aprendizagem e crescimento.

The first lesson I learned from Harry came before he even arrived: if you wait for perfection, it'll probably never come, and what will fill the void is regret.

Success is a fickle mistress. If you go chasing her, she will ignore you. If you leave her alone and just go about your business, she might come looking for you.

Fear of any undertaking, to her way of thinking, was usually a reason to go ahead with it.

Fear prevents us from growing...go to where the fear is.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

he could see it glinting at his fingertips, ready to be fashioned.

On Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of Jupiter, human beings were more free—free to found their own petty nations and ruin their own lives their own way. But