Quotes About Opportunity

The universe wasn't ideal, but it was hardly a prison. After all, you had to exist somewhere; it might as well be here.

Can someone be truly good if they never have the opportunity to act badly?

Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

There are no safe paths anymore

The universe wasn't ideal, but it was hardly a prison. After all, you had to exist somewhere, it might as well be here.

I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.

one could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already gone into mourning for; then he reminded himself that she was the type of woman who mourned damaged reputations and lost opportunities, not human beings.

I think that the rich can always call themselves democratic, but the sick people are not among the rich." I thought he was done, but he was only pausing for the interpreter to catch up. "Look, I'm very proud to be an American. I have many opportunities because I'm American. I can travel freely throughout the world, I can start projects, but that's called privilege, not democracy.

Trust is risk, and risk avoidance is the name of the game in business. ~ Tom West. 130-131

There are more billionaires today than ever before," Jim declared. "We are talking about wealth that we've never seen before. And the only time that I hear talk of shrinking resources among people like us, among academics, is when we talk about things that have to do with poor people.

You did not have to be the first company to produce the new kind of machine; sometimes, in fact, it was better not to be the first. But you had to produce yours before the new market really opened up and customers had made other marriages. For once they are lost, both old and prospective customers are often gone for good.

Charity is scraps from the table, social justice is a seat at the table, and remember, we want a seat.

Sometimes it seems his whole life revolves around watching and waiting. Waiting for the right moment, waiting for the right memory to capture. Hoping for that perfect minute where everything finally comes together.

Ä°ÅŸler ne kadar kötü giderse, o kadar iÅŸin içine girersiniz. Ä°ÅŸler iyi gidince de, bu sefer de iÅŸin içine giremezsiniz. Ä°ÅŸte bu kadar!

The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was.

There will be other ways you can make your mark. Ways that are as satisfying, with far less risk. You only need to be patient, and ready to grasp opportunities when they come." - Lord Rothen

When offering a person a chance at redemption, you can't force them to take it." - Savara

All of the criticisms one might mount against the corporate form—some of which are valid—pale in contrast to two straightforward and indeed essential virtues. First, business makes most of the stuff we enjoy and consume. Second, business is what gives most of us jobs. The two words that follow most immediately from the world of business are "prosperity" and "opportunity.

I believe . . . that if our country ever comes into trial again, young men will spring up equal to the occasion, and if one fails, there will be another to take his place.

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.