Quotes About Opportunity

Stay near me on the way back." Surprise slapped her face. She turned it into cold arrogance. "Worried about my survival?" "Don't want to miss an opportunity to use you as a body shield." "How sweet of you." "Stay near me, Elara." He walked away before she could come back at him with something clever.

Surprise slapped her face. She turned it into cold arrogance. "Worried about my survival?" "Don't want to miss an opportunity to use you as a body shield.

Life gives us precious few opportunities to put our best foot forward, so when a chance to shine presents itself, one should always take it.

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.

My mom once told me that the American Dream was to live better than your parents." "Do you think it's true?" he asked. "I think everyone defines better differently. Some want more money. Others want more time.

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.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." ? William Faulkner

THE THING ABOUT second chances is knowing what to do with them if they're given to you.

It is a paradox that the more egalitarian society becomes, the more important an individual's genes will be. Where opportunity is completely open – should a child's background ever become entirely irrelevant in their attainment – innate advantages will still create division.

Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

She has somehow missed the bus of life.

So. The door was open into the dark and he had but to walk through it.

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

She began to feel that if there had ever been a bus she had by now certainly missed it.

I had been confronted (at last) with a sizeable ordeal labelled with my name. This was not something to be wasted.

Perhaps that was the only time which we should ever, ever have together. Perhaps it was something which would never, never, never come again.

There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don't squander them.

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can you understand that? Can you understand that in averting the pitfalls and miseries that beset man, Eternity prevents men from finding their own bitter and better solutions, the real solutions that come from conquering difficulty, not avoiding it?

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.

A great many things are possible." And to himself he added: But not practical.

After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.

Pero ¿podemos permitirnos el lujo de arriesgarnos? ¿Podemos arriesgar el presente por el bien de un nebuloso futuro?