Quotes About Opportunity

Our motive is not to prove our worth, but to live our possibilities

Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.

doing what Americans had always done: profit as best they could from whatever commercial circumstances presented themselves.

Pritisnila je na gumb dvigala. Šla bo in kupila letalsko vozovnico. Svoboda, ki jo iš?e, je njena, ne Satakejeva, ne Jajoina, ne Jošijina, in prepri?ana je bila, da mora biti tam nekje zunaj. ?e so se za njo zaprla še ena vrata, nima druge izbire, kot da najde nova in jih odpre. Dvigalo, ki ji je prišlo naproti, je je?alo kot veter. END.

What's the point of living forever if you can't take a few risks?

B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.

the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

Ooh, I like this one! Connor says. 'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report!

Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that's ripe for saving

I was never going to amount to much anyway, but now, statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Can't you see? I don't get to do ANYTHING I want! Because I'm too busy just trying to stay alive. And you come here with your fancy school uniform and your mother's jewelry and your neighbor's freaking car, and you think you can buy your way in? What kind of idiot buys his way into the bottom?

And so it gave Ayn the opportunity to observe. To let it play out, and allow Goddard a few moments of fear and shock, before she gleaned the intruder. Because as Constantine suggested, she could mold Goddard's actions—but only when he was reeling, and his fury was whipped into stiff but malleable peaks.

The curb is the launching point for many a deed. To step off could be the start of a life-changing journey. On the other hand to push someone off could crush that person beneath the wheels of a truck.

There is opportunity in every disaster, Jeri told her. A ship goes down, that's when I get excited. Because I know there are always treasures in the wreckage. Look what I found at the bottom of the sea. I found you.

B)ut a second can split in a million different directions...

The difference between you and me...is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you're just trying to find a place to urinate.

But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.

Dove tu vedi vuoto, io vedo possibilità

The curb is the launching point for many a deed. To step off could be the start of a life-changing journey.

Dans la vie, on voit ce qui peut être accompli, on pèse le pour et le contre et ensuite on saisit l'opportunité. — Henry

You can be anyone you want to be now, Unwind (pg. 80)

As he slaves over his homework, he begins to wonder what it was like in the old days, when education was a right, not just a privilege. He wonders if school sucked as much then as it does now.

But why waste time lamenting the paths that had closed? Best to embrace the one path that remained.