Quotes About Opportunity

Cat's away the mice will play.

Everybody gets their own ration of luck, they say.

What we did in the last month, last year, even in childhood, shouldn't deny us the chance of reinvention

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself—the waste of days given us. Is there any more piercing remorse than the realization that a person has thrown away the potential that resides in every sunrise?

believe long ago had decided it was better to be first in Gaul rather than second in Rome.

crowd again. "I think we blew an opportunity. But maybe

I also figuredd out that what we call our destiny is usually determined by two or three casual decision which on the surface seem about as important as spitting your gum through a sewer grate.

For a brief moment he glimpsed a new destiny opening before his eyes, a window into a future he had never imagined for himself, a path to an entirely different life, and yet just as quickly as the window opened it closed, slammed shut as much by long years of training as by a feeling of trepidation.

Suppose you did get a job as a saleswoman? What would you get for it? No matter how they figure it up, when you're selling goods you get paid on commission, because it stands to reason if you weren't making commission they wouldn't pay you. But who's buying any goods? You'd have just stood around some store, all day long, waiting for the chance to make a living, and not making it. People eat, though, even now. You'll have something coming in.

Leaders provide opportunities for people to exceed their previous levels of performance.

You never know where one step will take you, and you never know where the next one will lead. The

conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term.

you're still breathing. Every day is a new world.

You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then—whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.

Evade purchasing stocks which purely look like a bargain.

One's hard luck and misfortune form the measuring stick for future good luck and fortune.

There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.

Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint you can at it.

Part 3 BACK TO SCHOOL (THE NORMAL KIND)

Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

Love takes chances, and I wanted to take a chance right now. For once in my life, I knew what I wanted.

seize the moment, however worried you may be about what's coming next. It's your brain, it's your life, it's your attitude…. Go out there and fill up with sights, sounds, and ideas that are bigger than yourself.

Jacob didn't say "Seize the day," he said "Seize what's been handed you." Make smart decisions. Make decisions because—he said it again—life is a temporary situation.