Quotes About Opportunity

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

He should have just gone on with his unremarkable life — because then, maybe, just maybe, he might have had the chance to do something remarkable with it in time.

As he looked around at this boneyard of uselessness, Nick Slate had a simple idea. An idea that would not only change the direction of his life, but the very course of human existence. He would hold a garage sale.

Tyger Salazar was going places! After a life of wasting time and taking up space, he was now professionally paid to waste time and take up space!

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.

a pawn can be as valuable as a knight in the right circumstance

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.

The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.

Don't you see, Lev? you can save yourself. You can be anyone you want to be now.

You can be anyone you want to be now...

Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineral that you must not let go of without extracting their gold!

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck.

Listen, friend, he said, this whole game is just one big deck of cards. if you want to get into the game you have to take whatever comes up in the shuffle.

it's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.

Baby, that's grammar school. Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out here we call it hustling. I'd like to be a good hustler.