Quotes About Opportunity

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

Allowing yourself to be a conduit for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown saying, she has rarely been known to knock

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Success is taken by the man, who has made himself ready for its arrival.

I now know that success can not choose me. It is waiting on a path that I must walk. In truth, it waits there for everyone. Many do not know where the path begins. Some search for a shortcut to the end. But the majority of the world does not even realise there is a path there at all.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.

Welcome to the only game in town.

I was glad to have the opportunity, but now I am glad to be rid of it. The constant violence, or the impending threat of it, and the toll of seeing so many casualties, over time, has enveloped me in an environment that weighs as heavily as a wool shroud even on pleasant days. To be the tiller at the wheel of man's hatred for man should be a tour of duty, not a career. - Ashley Crandall

You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

Understand this: the extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing! In other words,

You are all perfectly correct in your implications that we would be safer if we stayed home in our rooms...But we would also be duller, stupider, and, finally, sadder. If you want to avoid danger, don't get born. Once you are born, make something of it!

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

Agile processes of all kinds share one thing: they embrace change, approaching it as an opportunity for growth, rather than an obstacle.

I don't mind not knowing exactly where I am—sometimes I enjoy it. There's a sense of freedom in not being able to predict what lies over the next ridge, where the next lake is, and where the next valley leads. I enjoy the release of wandering through what is, from my perspective, uncharted territory. I never intend to lose myself, but when it happens I view it as an opportunity rather than a problem.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Understand that being able to say, 'I don't know what to do with my life' is an incredible privilege that 99% of the rest of the world will never enjoy.

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

He knew he would be crazy to take that kind of risk, but he'd also be crazy not to.

Einmal im Leben zur rechten Zeit sollte man an Unmögliches geglaubt haben.

Plötzlich habe er denken können, sagt er, was er nie für möglich gehalten: daß er die Blume des Glücks überall pflücken solle, wo sie sich ihm biete.