Quotes About Opportunity

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed.

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

But if it's God's will, anytime is the perfect time.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

That's the only way I'd take the job. I doubt if I would have come just as coach. This is a better challenge, a better opportunity. I'll have to have a very fine staff and I'm sure I will.

The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

Nothing lasts forever But there is always something.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

All of a sudden one day I was like, I'm good at this! Oh, man! People are not giving me jobs because they feel sorry for me! I am an actress. I am a singer. I am a performer. That's what I do! Once I started giving myself a little credit, the whole world opened up.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

Like having your own licence to print money.

Far too many people accept management promotions because they feel (often rightly so) that they will be dead-ended if they reject the promotion.

Stop drowning your dreams by jumping into waters that you are unable to swim in.

Sto neprijatelja i jedan prijatelj ucinice te bogatim covekom u poslu. U bilo kom poslu.

Quante volte mi sono trovato su un trampolino con sotto il mare azzurro, e non mi sono tuffato