Quotes About Opportunity

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. – Mark Twain

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.

There is no fate... no predestination... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it -- if you try.

We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

Fish in the right waters. Know what you're looking for. Throw back the ones that aren't worth keeping. It's a big ocean out there.

You miss a lot watching life from the sidelines--and letting fear hold you back.

If God was willing to give people a second chance, why should we do any less?

focus on what could be rather than on what might have been.

That not everyone gets a second change at love. That it's a gift-and refusing to accept it is like throwing that gift back in the Almighty's face.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

It was at 25, not 15, that I began to write. Yes, there were attempts before, writing attempts, but they were the mere scribbling of a child who through no fault of her own knew only half an alphabet. Now, in my 27th year, it is appetite I have, and abundance to garner. I can make up for lost time—and time is what I have to seek some truths and pull together some lost pieces. It's okay. I'll do it. I'll make up those years.

That's why we all have to live every moment as if it were our last and not close ourselves off.

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

Good luck beats early rising.

Adventure cannot be had where some degree of danger or risk is not present. Any life lived to a fully satisfying extend carries risk in its very nature.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.