Quotes About Opportunity

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Autumn is a reminder that while the leaves die and fall, there will always be Spring, a chance to replenish and be reborn again. We all have the opportunity to replenish ourselves, to be reborn.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can

In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

Games give you a chance to excel.