Quotes About Opportunity

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

The BLM also created a program in which prisoners are given the opportunity to work with captive wild horses. They gentle them and get them to the point where they are ridable. This is an excellent idea.

There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

You don't understand. I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

how would you account for the mail Sammy drew from all over the country? From insurance companies in Hartford, from chain stores in the South, from mail-order houses in the Middle West, people were writing that I could not have written Sammy without personal knowledge of their own mail-room boy who had run over their backs to become office manager, and in some cases company president.

As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth.

Sometime I hope I get a chance to be young before I get too old to enjoy it -Anne Shirley

Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

It's never too late while you're breathing.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

There are two ways to get to the top of a giant oak tree. You can sit on an acorn and wait. Or you can climb it.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we got.

Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune's favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel our bagging sails fill out. So seemed it with the Pequod. For next day

Now, contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love; and thus was it with respect to Wilson. No one could look at him without conceiving a strong dislike, or a cordial desire to entertain such a feeling the first favourable opportunity. There was such an intolerable air of conceit about this man that it was almost as much as one could do to refrain from running up and affronting him.

Åžöyle dolu dolu gülmek muhteÅŸem bir ÅŸeydir, ama böyle bir f?rsat insan?n eline nadiren geçer; çoÄŸunlukla kederin elindedir.

Remember this, if you can—there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end—only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.

You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end—only at the end it becomes more obvious. Use your time while you have it, Willie, in making something of yourself.

The prospect of refreshment at the charges of another is an opportunity never to be neglected by men of clear commercial judgment.

Ha de saberse que si se cede a una tentación, muy luego se presenta como el rayo la oportunidad de incurrir en ella.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.