Quotes About Opportunity

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

Difficulties in life are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction, When one door closes, another always opens

j'ai lu une phrase: pouvez-vous me dire si elle provient du Talmud? Tu ne seras pas puni pour les pêchés commis, mais pour touts les bons moments que tu n'as pas vécus

Wer gerade gewachsen ist, ist für Leichtsinn. Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert.«

Tenía la vida por delante. Siempre tenemos la vida por delante. Lo que queda de ella.

No wonder men did not want women to wear bloomers. What could women accomplish if they did not have to continually mind their skirts, keep them from dragging in the mud or getting trampled on the steps of an omnibus? If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world!

If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world! And

With pockets, women could conquer the world!

Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it's through classes, workshops, whatever is available to you. This may be difficult, because things like classes, workshops, writing programs, require time and money. But I say this honestly and somewhat harshly – if you're not willing to prioritize your writing, perhaps you should do something else?

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

I have had the following conversation on innumerable occasions with young men of about 20 who have been unemployed since leaving school, and whose general educational level is outlined above: 'Have you thought of improving your education?' 'No.' 'Why not?' 'There's no point. There are no jobs.' 'Could there be any other reason to get educated?' 'No.

One man's poverty is another man's employment opportunity.

I have decided that I will test my ability … in the fires of the primaries and not just in the smoke-filled rooms of Miami Beach.

Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Any man who has met with success, if he will be frank with himself, must admit that there has been a big element of fortune in the success.

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.