Quotes About Opportunity

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Empowerment without a platform is like responsibility without authority. In too many of our churches, we offer discipleship training and leadership training without providing any significant platform for people to do the things they've been trained to do. This is especially true in our larger churches.

Buffett knows that a down market is when investors should be buying, not selling.

Benwell's too late for politics, and we are too late for politics, Ede says. Too late for the Occupation. Too late to march on the streets …

Laukti tuš?iai - tai atid?ti gyvenim?.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.

I wasn't quite sure how a player got to the big leagues. As far as I knew, he was just there one day.

Dressed up sharply, Seyit kissed his mother's hand, stepped down the stairs and ventured forth to become a rich man. After he had left, Dirmit spread out her books on top of the sewing machine and started to study.

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

If I had books, if I could scrape together an education, I'd have a future, whether any man ever asked me to marry him or not.

I quite lost myself, gazing at this work of art. . . It thrilled me, that sculpture. For one thing, it reminded me that in my new life, I may have other such experiences. I needn't always be an ignorant girl. The world will offer itself to me like a chalice brimming with immortal wine, and I will quaff from it.

There is very little bad from which good cannot be pressed.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

If we … capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

Sylvain flung out his hands. "You think my father never screwed up with me? You think I never screwed up with him? You don't get only one chance, for God's sake. You get five million chances, second after second every day. You don't have to get every single one of them perfect. Merde. It's not chocolate.

May you love your life and seize it with both hands.

When you find yourself in a position in which you have not asked but need to, are you relying too heavily on luck, chance, or time? Push those temptations away, and make your ask.

The voice that only you can hear gives you the signs, the clues, that something is going well and, more importantly, that you really want this opportunity.

When you ask for money, you are not taking something away; you are giving an opportunity.

Vive muchos años... Vive intensamente, vivelo todo... Vive por mi la vida que yo no pude vivir. Kai