Quotes About Opportunity

there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!

Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love, is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out on us if we'll only travel that far?" –Inscription in George Sterling's copy of The Road, March 26, 1914

Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life—the crowd of players, society. The table

Drink deep the cup of life; take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once.

Drink deep the cup of life; Take its dark wine into your soul, For it passes round the table only once.

Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.

Trading provides one of the last great frontiers of opportunity in our economy. It is one of the very few ways in which an individual can start with a relatively small bankroll and actually become a multimillionaire

THE SEVENTH HIGHER LAW IS: When You Raise the Bottom, the Top Rises.

Experience, my dear lady, has taught me a sad truth: time flows in one direction only! As the days pass none of us grows younger. Sometimes we postpone glorious schemes only to discover in the end that they never have materialized! Procrastination is the thief of life!

You have to remember life is short, but

The streaming and twisting of the horsehair in the wind beckoned the owner ever onward, luring him away from this spot to seek another, to find better pasture, to explore new opportunities and adventures, to create his own fate in his life in this world.

Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.

Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that's great. If you can't, make peace with the reasons why.

Every ending is just an opportunity to start again, wiser, more experienced, and more emboldened for the next act.

So much to do, so much time

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

As ever, his grief made my heart ache. Ambition is a dangerous thing, I murmured. One can harbor it unknowing, only to find it sparked into life when the opportunity presents itself.

He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than enough suffering in the world without adding to the balance.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. And

So what? You're no worse off than if you hadn't asked. At least this way you give yourself a fifty-fifty chance

Seek the opportunity to swim beyond your own little pond.

I reckon, Billy, that there's such a thing as serendipity, that if you are meant to move on, you will. And I believe that if you imagine, and keep on imagining, a better life for your family, then events will conspire to present the opportunity to you. And when that time comes, you will make your decision, one way or another." "Bit of a gamble, though, ain't it?" "So is staying in one spot." Epilogue

It's funny how things work out, isn't it? I mean, it's like dominoes—you touch one and then the others start to go, and sometimes they fall in the right direction and one person knows another and it all opens up like a flower.