Quotes About Opportunity

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

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

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Christabel Pankhurst

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.