Quotes About Opportunity

A fortune begins with a penny.

Patterns could be broken; paths could be changed. All it took was courage.

Hard to choose. Wait, and let the bad things go on. Act, and maybe waste your chance anyway, because the timing's wrong. The best plan in the world can fall apart.

Just an empty road ahead. But it happens sometimes. When you least expect it, everything changes.

sometimes a start is all we ever get.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

the idea was not at all extraordinary; like some windblown seed, it needed only a speck of ground and a drop of water to grow.

In any situation the right solution isn't the only one.

Wherever you are is the entry point

For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

The sisters' acquaintance Madam Nell Kimball recalled the sage advice of her aunt Letty, a retired courtesan: "Every girl, if only she knew it, is sitting on her fortune.

I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board as I have.

The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

You'd leave the farm? I asked. He nodded. You'd leave school?

He cleared his throat. He was going to tell us more. We moved to close off the opportunity. Wheeled like a school of fish, practiced, synchronized. It was beautiful. It was Pavlovian. It was a goddamn dance of avoidance conditioning.

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .

WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said.

Fate is the opportunity. Choice is what you do with it.

John had learned a long time ago that the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all. To

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity

Hic Rhodus, hic salta! Here is the rose, here dance!

There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.