Quotes About Opportunity

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

Peace without justice and equal opportunity is no Peace.

Let your hook be always cast in the pond. when you least expect it, there will be fish.

Within chaos lies opportunity.

You see, the catch about portrait painting— I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

Trouble, after all, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder

You see, the catch about portrait-painting—I've looked into the thing a bit—is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.

Yes, sir. There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first. This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.

How often in this life a mere accident may shape our whole future!

Lady Kimbuck's eyes gleamed. She took the package eagerly. She never lost an opportunity of reading compromising letters. She enjoyed them as literature, and there was never any knowing when they might come in useful.

Life, said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, is a house which we all burgle. We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again.

The stoppered bottle does not care whose is the hand that removes its cork – all it wants is the chance to fizz:

Soy prisionero con la puerta abierta, con el mundo abierto.

On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c'est trop tard

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.

Nature often allows a person only one mistake.

In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change.

Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.