Quotes About Opportunity

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

If you have the opportunity to make a moment meaningful, why not take it?

MAKE AMERICA NEW YORK.

Moving to New York was about reinvention. If you didn't want that, you stayed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Perfection is only chance.

Nice seeing you, Eddie. We must have lunch sometime.' I've always found it curious how many people, when they are clearly in an unrivalled physical and mental state to arrange a lunch or drink, don't do so, but merely say that they should.

In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only...?"

You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.

Everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our own hands.

But sometimes talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose names and voices you'll never hear.

The thing is, Harp, everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only…?

one thing you learn by losing someone is to seize the moment.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.

Life is an Invitation, Provocation, and a Celebration.

You've got to take life's opportunities where you find them.

Everybody needs hope, even criminals

moment. 'In New York,

You gotta spend money to make money,