Quotes About Opportunity

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.

Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

To many fame comes too late.

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

There is no chance for old fools.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

The present is great with the future

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Business is more exciting than any game.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.