Quotes About Opportunity

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."1

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Sunt victorii care duc la un impas, tot aÅŸa cum sunt înfrângeri care deschid c?i noi.

You'll get your chance. One day. And when you do grab it with both hands.

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes, it gives you only one chance.

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

I dislike poor teachers. They are criminals to me. I've seen so much cruelty toward children. I've seen so many children not given the opportunity to live up to their potential as human beings.

Son, you can do more good at Yamacraw than you could ever do in the Peace Corps. And you would be helping Americans, Pat. And I, for one, think it's very important to help Americans.

The bridge only connected us with our town; it connected my mother with the world beyond Melrose Island, so inconceivably rich with promise.

As a town, we had made the error of staying small—and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

Yet all around me, in the grinning faces of my students, I could see a crime, so ugly that it could be interpreted as a condemnation of an entire society, a nation be damned, a history of wickedness—these children before me did not have a goddam chance of sharing in the incredible wealth and affluence of the country that claimed them, a country that failed them, a country that needed but did not deserve deliverance.

when you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great. Make a fifty-year master plan. A fifty-year master plan will change how you look at the opportunities in the present." WALT DISNEY

Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.

Jamie Dimon is in a position to scoop up assets on the cheap. That's how you create value for the long term.

Something always turned up. That was Tom's philosophy.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

are all imperfect beings full of shortcomings, and this affords us perhaps as many opportunities

For life is too short to be little.