Quotes About Opportunity

A 'first meeting' is, by definition, a one-time opportunity, and there's no going back. Over the course of my career, I've been on both sides of inspiring first meetings that energized me for the next stage of a partnership and disappointing first meetings that left me uncertain about next steps.

There are so many people who are trying their luck in films and only a few of those actors get to do films and choose to be an actor. The stakes are always high here. It's hard in the sense that it's very uncertain.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

Each day is an opportunity to build the defenses of peace in the minds of people.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

I want to be in Star Wars. That would be amazing.

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.

You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.

Danger has a bracing effect.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

Chance created the situation

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.