Quotes About Opportunity

Ask him: History knocked on your door, did you answer?

Success excuses all risks.

because if I was ever going to, I'd have done it already.

We all have to gamble with our lives in here, we don't get a choice about that; the trick is figuring out when it's worth taking a bet.

Small hopes were riches to those who until lately had none, and were to be pursued by every means at hand.

And we all get the illusion of a chance. But the only chance they're really giving us is the chance to be useful to them.

Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us

In the library everyone was rich.

the years go by, we find our doors and windows. Some are always open, some never were.

One day soon it will stumble up the walk and knock, knock hard, and you will have to answer the door.

How can woman believe in merit in a reality like this? A job market that rewards her indirectly as if she were selling her body is simply perpetuating the traditional main employment options for women—compulsory marriage or prostitution—more politely and for half the pay.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Don't wait the time will never be right.

Adversity will do something too you or for you.......

The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Riches are shy and timid. They have to be attracted.

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit

Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit. Within every problem is an opportunity. Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

Far from being a disadvantage, struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would forever lie dormant without it.