Quotes About Opportunity

May the birdies always land at your feet.

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

Industry is the parent of fortune.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

And suddenly you know... It's time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

Choice is the hinge of destiny.

Life's real name is Choices.

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.

A strong will can accomplish anything... There is no such thing as inspiration, and very little of genius. Dig, blooming under opportunity, results in what appears to be the former, and certainly makes possible the development of what original modicum of the latter one may possess. Dig is a wonderful thing, and will move more mountains than faith ever dreamed of. In fact, Dig should be the legitimate father of all self-faith.

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

Here's to the fish he caught, Here's to the one that got away, And here's to the one he bought.

"Carpe diem" does not mean "fish of the day."

You cannot catch trout with dry breeches.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

But freedom is not enough.

Statesmen are not called upon only to settle easy questions. These often settle themselves. It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu, doÄŸuÅŸtan bir kumarbaz. ve yaÅŸam da masaya sürebileceÄŸi en büyük pey.

But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.