Quotes About Opportunity

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

The American Dream cannot produce "rags to riches," but it has, as Strain puts it, delivered reliably on the promise of "rags to comfort.

You cannot master difficult situations without practice. You cannot practice mastery without being in the situation. When you know this, difficulty becomes an opportunity to push past your thresholds.

By many a happy accident.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

The English government is one of those which arose out of a conquest, and not out of society, and consequently it arose over the people; and though it has been much modified from the opportunity of circumstances since the time of William the Conqueror, the country has never yet regenerated itself, and is therefore without a constitution.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense

but from the errors of other nations let us learn wisdom, and lay hold of the present opportunity—to begin government at the right end.

fortuitous chance.

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

A stone, a leaf, an unfound door.

California, here I come.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

Life affords no second chances," he thought. "Is this what growing older is—seeing always more clearly the things we failed to see?

Cause it's not too late It's never too late

its not too late never too late

They had all worked so hard to forget what they'd left behind and to build a new life in America.

We can look at our work as service to society and as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves by interacting with others. Our work will thus become an occasion to practice the teachings that we meditate on.

I've obtained the human life of leisure and opportunity, Free from any deficiencies; I follow you, the Three Jewels. Always I take you to my crown; From this very day, pray be my refuge.