Quotes About Opportunity

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Flops are a part of life's menu, and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.