Quotes About Opportunity

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

The South Side of Chicago is my oyster.

A vida passa enquanto estás a decidir o que hás de fazer

Blue Eyes, you will say yes to me?" "Tonight? Now?" "Yes, tonight. Before this time between us passes.

it with the eye of an interior decorator, and there were possibilities everywhere she looked. She moved

Only a White Eyes would walk when she had a perfectly good horse to ride.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.

I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

The truth that our futures are so often determined not by some grand design or deliberate strategy but by an ordinary run-of-the-mill head cold.

I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that's the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.

Talk about turning lemons into lemonade!

The way to become really wealthy is to start at the top and not at the bottom. Be an entrepreneur and not an employee.

Joshua made this frustrating period of waiting a time of learning, planning and preparing. Then when the opportunity came, he was ready to go in, claim the Promised Land for his followers, and settle there.

limitation to abundance.

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. Other people, though, go on to acheive their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.

I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

Everybody goes around missing all the best stuff because they don't want anything bad to happen. But then when something bad wants to happen it just does. Anyway. No matter how careful you're being.

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.

We just made the mistake of putting it off. We thought we would lose nothing by putting it off. We thought we had plenty of time. I guess that was our key mistake, right? We thought there would always be more time. Why do we do that? I mean, not just Luis and me. Everybody. Why does everybody do that? Think we'll have more time?

But sometimes the hard parts of our lives come with something valuable attached.

Because my father had the equivalent of a few thousand dollars, and their fathers had nothing. Money, my friend. Money bought us our lives. And that is called privilege. We bought our lives, while those who couldn't afford to were slaughtered like animals.