Quotes About Opportunity

Can you call yourself a coward simply because the courage of others seems to you out of proportion to the triviality of the occasion? Thus wisdom creates cowards. And thus you miss Opportunity while spending your life on the lookout for it.

Le nouveau royaume de Jérusalem est un peu la Californie de l'époque, on peut y faire fortune.

Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I

You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justifies birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was - full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing. I

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

All our efforts will be vain unless we can show that our democratic system works, and that its end product is justice and opportunity for the common man.

One might look at a Rembrandt picture, or hear a Beethoven symphony, without depriving others of the privilege; but one couldn't become an oil king without taking oil away from others.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.

Remember what they say about bridges. The hard thing is to know which ones to cross and which ones to burn.

Where God has gifted us, there is a niche for us to fill. Let's be faithful in looking for it.

Seek to view all of life as an opportunity to give God honor and glory.

If you have only one chance to telegraph a message via the way you dress, why not make it a good impression

la sua ragion d'essere è ribadire l'uguaglianza nel lavoro, l'onestà e la libertà, fondandosi sulla convinzione che lavoro, uguaglianza e libertà sono un diritto di tutti, su questa terra.

So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks. I'm starting my business tomorrow.

In jedem menschlichen Wesen auf dieser weiten, komplizierten Welt ruht eine erstaunliche Anlage zur Größe. Doch nur selten haben diese verborgenen Gaben die Gelegenheit, sich zu entfalten. Manchmal ist es allein der Zufall des Schicksals.

Finding the women alive would give The People a second chance and that, perhaps, was what he hoped for most.

A good plan now is better than a great plan too late.

In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.

The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.