Quotes About Opportunity

You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn't start now.

If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?

You can't change yesterday. You can't control tomorrow. But you can choose what you do today with the goal that those choices will make things better tomorrow.

El fracaso es la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo más inteligentemente.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in." —MARK CAINE

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

Si usted tiene éxito, este se debe a que en alguna parte, en algún momento, alguien le ofreció un estilo de vida o una idea que lo encaminó en la dirección correcta".

You don't say how slim the odds are but rather how you can improve the odds.

Preparation may not guarantee a win, but it sure puts you in position for one.

Mother Teresa observed, "Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Raymond Smith, former CEO and Chairman of the Bell Atlantic Corporation, once remarked, "Taking the safe road, doing your job, and not making any waves may not get you fired (right away, at least), but it sure won't do much for your career or your company over the long haul. We're not dumb. We know that administrators are easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders—risk takers—are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.

Opino que si continúo creciendo, continúo buscando oportunidades y continúo corriendo riesgos, continuaré experimentando momentos definitivos. Si continúo tomando buenas decisiones y siempre busco hacer las cosas que beneficien a mi gente en esos momentos, mi liderazgo continuará redefiniéndose, creciendo y mejorando. Cuando eso sucede, todos salimos ganando.

The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).

Cuál es la diferencia entre un obstáculo y una oportunidad? Nuestra actitud hacia él. Toda oportunidad tiene una dificultad y toda dificultad tiene una oportunidad».1

To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow.

Law of Diminishing Intent, which says, "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

As Hall of Fame basketball coach John Wooden said, "When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

La experiencia no garantiza la credibilidad, pero motiva a las personas a dar la oportunidad de probar que se es capaz.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Life means risk. People who sabotage themselves shouldn't worry about failure as much as they should be concerned about the chances they miss when they don't even try. Speech writer Charles Parnell observed, "Too many people are having what might be called 'near-life experiences.' They go through life bunting, so afraid of failure that they never try to win the big prizes, never knowing the thrill of hitting a home run or even taking a swing at one.

You are out of your comfort zone: Growth requires risk. Ronald E. Osborne stated, "Unless you do something beyond what you've already mastered, you will never grow.

Those who fly always first get out on the edge. If you want to seize an opportunity, you must take a risk. If you want to grow, you must make mistakes. If you want to reach your potential, you will have to take chances. If you don't, you will be resigned to a life of mediocrity. The people who don't make mistakes end up working for those who do. And in the end, they often end up regretting the safe life they lived. —

French writer, poet, and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire wrote, Come to the edge. No, we will fall. Come to the edge. No, we will fall. They came to the edge. He pushed them and they flew.