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Quotes About Opportunity

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
~ George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.
~ George Borrow
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
~ George Burns
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
~ George Burns
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
~ George Burns
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
~ George Burns
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
~ George Cadbury
As for time, all men have it in abundance.
~ George Clason
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
~ George Dennison Prentice
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
~ George E. Woodberry
It is never too late to be what we might have been.
~ George Eliot
It's them that take advantage that get advantage i' this world.
~ George Eliot
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot
Nunca es tarde para ser lo que deberías haber sido.
~ George Elliott Clarke
The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more -- if only they were willing to take a few risks.
~ George Foreman
Because immigrants came here precisely for the social and economic benefits, refusing to learn English was self-defeating.
~ George Friedman
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ George Friedman
There is a saying attributed to him that helps explain his thinking: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ George Friedman
By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.
~ George Gilder
William's eyes glowed like two amber coals. She met his gaze and flinched. No emotion reflected in the amber, only intelligence, cruel in a way the eyes of a hunting Mire cat were cruel. She saw no worry, no softness, no thoughts at all, only waiting. He seemed barely human now, not a man but some feral thing, knitted of darkness and biding his time for an opportunity to pounce.
~ Ilona Andrews