Quotes About Opportunity

Charles Dickens collaborated with the heiress and philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts to set up a 'Magdalen House' to train prostitutes in other trades to prepare them for a new life in Australia.

Point is, you can whine about it, or you can give this thing a shot. Either you're in or you're out. Love is love - even if it's only for a little while, that beats never.

Sometimes, you have to ride the wave, Kit-Cat, and see what beach it lands on. Could be warm and sunny there.

The world was her oyster. Unlike Dixie, whose world was more like stinky, week-old dead fish.

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, AMERICAN POLITICIAN

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

We are constantly told that we stand at a unique moment in human history and that this is the last chance to make a difference, but every point in human history is unique, and it is always the last chance to make some particular difference.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right",we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, "Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity." We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.

In fact he thought the only intelligent thing for a young man without money to do was to marry a young lady who had money.

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

You understand, he says, people don't always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.

His footsteps sound hesitant, but he doesn't turn back. Nor will the moment return, which is true of all moments, though not equally.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.

There will always be another goal, another prospect.

Ha ha ha! One shot? You say that like there's sometimes more than one shot. Do you ever go into a fight thinking "there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later"? We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot. Making it count is all that matters.

Anybody could rise above anything in America. ... No, they can't, Marie said, from the backseat. How was I supposed to break out of there? What were my people going to say? Uppity. That's what. 'Cause if I can, why can't they? But I tell you what, I don't even know how it's done. I never seen nobody do it.