Quotes About Opportunity

YOU CAN MISS A LOT IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE {RULE 52}.

RULE 43: IF YOU'VE GOT THE ADVANTAGE – MAKE SURE YOU KEEP IT. She

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.

Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

It wasn't the end of their story. It was the beginning.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Maybe you can afford to wait… but for some of us, there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

I think I will actually miss it a little, this time of pure potential.

Tell you what," Dr. Gage said. "Why don't you and your dad come along with me tomorrow?

a few bad apples is no reason not to visit the orchard.

How do I explain that having the chance to take a breather midlife and evaluate everything is rarer than a double rainbow?

Prince Henry offered a bold reply, "You cannot find a peril so great that the hope of reward will not be greater.

Juan de Aranda, an ambitious merchant, took the Portuguese navigator aside

Ferdinand Magellan and his brother Diogo moved to Lisbon, where they became pages at the royal court;

Ferdinand took advantage of the most advanced education in Portugal

And Magellan came well armed for what would be the most important meeting of his life.

what would actually occur once he set forth from Seville.

new economic possibilities for any European nation able to master the seas.

legitimately or not, he could sell it for enough to buy a small house; he could live off the proceeds

the rest of his life. An ordinary seaman might attain a modest degree of wealth

Potential requires exploration.

Shit happens, and if we just want to restrict ourselves to things where shit can't happen... we're not going to do anything very interesting.