Quotes About Opportunity

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

if there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Much of publishing (and any business) is a matter of making the right connection with the right person at the right time at the right place. You can't make that connection working alone in your office at your computer or curled up with your legal pad writing your story.

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, "the game is never over until the last man is out." Colors can change, lives can alter, anything is possible in this gentle, flawless, loving game.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd take more chances. I'd want more passion in my life. Less fear and more passion, more risk. Even if you fail, you've still taken a risk.

Going too fast for myself I missed more than I think I can remember almost everything it seems sometimes and yet there are chances that come back that I did not notice when they stood where I could have reached out and touched them

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

I had the greatest sparring partners, I had the greatest sparring team. And these guys they wrapped me up a lot. I never got the chance to get off on them.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.