Quotes About Opportunity

Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.

It's easier bein' a boy, 'cause when someone needs somethin' done like holdin' a horse, they'll always pick a boy 'cause they think the dumbest boy will be better at it than the brightest girl, which is stupid, but there you are.

Boys get to do what they want in this world, and girls do not.

Why, then?" I demand. "It is because, Miss Faber," says Mr. Peel, smiling one of his very rare smiles. "It is because you can swim." What?

Life is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an investment to be used in the world.

Never expect to achieve tomorrow what you can get today. Different of the fruits that fall alone, the sky can never be achieved in the same way.

Nobody is perfect. However life gives us a chance to be today what we were unable to be yesterday.

Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.

Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

There are but two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites.

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.