Quotes About Opportunity

But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

No point in thinking," she said briskly, "you just have to get on with life." (She really was turning into Miss Woolf.) "We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try." (The transformation was complete.) "What if we had a chance to do it again and again," Teddy said, "until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" "I think it would be exhausting.

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

I dreamt of going on the stage once, he said, looking crestfallen. It's never too late, I said vaguely. A lie, of course, as often, unfortunately, it is much too late.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.