Quotes About Opportunity

Once that gets going, doors start opening until they're all open, the whole building buzzing until sunrise, as if nothing matters because nothing does matter because the idea was you came here, your parents and their parents and their parents, and you always seem to have just arrived and yet never seem to have actually arrived. You're here, supposedly, in a new land full of opportunity, but somehow have gotten trapped in a pretend version of the old country.

But the widest gulf in the world is the distance between getting by and not quite getting by. Crossing that gap can happen in a hundred ways, almost all by accident. Bad day at work and/or kid has a fever and/or miss the bus and consequently ten minutes late

And I am going to have another opportunity. I am going to have a week-end with him at his home in Easton, a week-end with Wells at home, with just his family. That alone is worth the entire trip from Los Angeles to Europe.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form.

It was to be another one of those moments when just a few words will change your whole life. She said, "You have been invited to join the Grand Ole Opry!" Did I hear her right? Did she really say what I thought she said? At the age of seventy-one, was I really going to realize one of my longest-held and fondest dreams?

You have to recognize opportunity, no matter how subtle the knock. Everything doesn't happen at once. One thing leads to another as the building blocks of your life start to take form. This was one of those times, and I just knew it.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

You know as well as I do that any regrets we have are for things we chose not to do, not for the things we chose to do.

Diluted Knowledge.--But, poor children, they are too often badly used by their best friends in the matter of the knowledge

You see," said Margaret kindly, "we all know that men have more power than women, and I suppose the time has come for Norman to pass beyond you. He would not be cleverer than any one, if he could not do more than a girl at home.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there's no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Hey budding entrepreneurs, here is what you can do - Jump right in & make every mistake that everyone made before you when they jumped right in. Or, read up/study from those who have made the leap or work first for those currently leaping…

To coldfriend or coldfriending - Reaching out of the blue, via the internet, to a previously unknown person, for business purposes.

You might hear about "taking chances" – the real smartcraft is in "making chances..."

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great".

For just this moment, we have the closest thing to an advantage we're likely to get. And if we don't use it, we're gonna lose it." Look at me busting out all the tired old metaphors. Like I'd been saving them all winter just waiting for an opportunity to trot them out.

some place to stand and place a lever, there's nowhere from which to move the world.

But I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.

Gregor wanted more knowledge than the village grammar school could provide. The next level of school was a half-day's journey away. To attend, he would have to eat and sleep there. His parents scraped together every cent they could, but they could only afford to pay for books, a bed, and half of Gregor's meals. Twelve-year-old Gregor went anyway. He chose to feed his mind and go without food to fill his grumbling belly. At school, he feasted on his lessons.