Quotes About Opportunity

Well, we're all young once, Prentice, and those that are lucky get to be old.

The motto here is that a new door opens every time you push another man out a window.

You never get real adventures without a bit of risk somewhere.

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Somebody said that to become very rich you have to be helped by a combination of remarkable circumstances and an unbroken run of luck.

That's no way to treat adventures. Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

You only live twice. Once when you are born, and once when you stare death in the face.

When anything can happen, everything matters.

Her college years felt like freedom to her.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

Give me an opportunity to fail, Saiman said. I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Quick, Derek, it's your chance to shine, Ascanio said. Derek gave him a withering look. Desandra is a mother, Robert is married, Kate's affianced, and I'm an old soul. You're the closest thing to a virgin we've got. Get on with growing some flowing locks.

And then what? I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

Would you like to work here with me? We have no clients and the pay is shit.

Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it's a risk.

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

You fellows ever thought of hiring out as a Christmas lights crew? You'd make a fortune.

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

When I was a young man, I worked at the Boys and Girls Club in St. Louis, Missouri, and another boys club called Matthews-Dickey.

Every young man will make a mistake in his life, I bet you.

To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.