Quotes About Opportunity

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

If there is ever a choice between money and adventure, choose adventure.

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

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Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

You are never too old to dream a new dream or set another goal.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

It came to me that I hadn't known I had been being less than I could have been until then, when I saw there was so much more of the world for me to be myself within.

Forewarned is not forearmed. Sometimes you spend so much effort looking for the track that you know is there, that you miss the other one that you didn't know about.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

Indolence is the beginning of all vice, because in a condition of slothful dreaming the libido has abundant opportunity for sinking into itself...

Even if, juristically speaking, we are not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee.

The golden apples drop from the same tree, whether they be gathered by an imbecile locksmith's apprentice or by a Schopenhauer.

Doubt is the crown of life and all certainty is merely one-sided. For in uncertainty and doubt, truth and error come together. Doubt is life. When you are in doubt you have the greatest opportunity to unite the dark and the light sides of life.

I wish you had.

Every place in West, it seemed, was always for sale.

the maxim he'd always lived by: "Take every possible opportunity you can to eat and take a shit, because this county is 3,500 square miles, a third of it roadless.

whenever there is a sunset in front of you, turn around and start shooting what's behind you.

In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.

There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.