Quotes About Opportunity

Sometimes understanding other people's problems is the key to finding opportunities.

The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams and humble beginnings.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label.

the successful entrepreneur's unique ability to turn trying times into triumphs.

You won't always have the luxury of a second chance. So be careful with your first one.

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Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to

Life is short, the world is wide, and I wanna make some memories.

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very much different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment for what it actually was; I suppose we never do. Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs.

Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.

Joan of Arc had led armies when she was hardly older than Harriet. Yet, for Christmas last year, Harriet's father had given Harriet an insulting board game for girls called What Shall I Be? It was a particularly flimsy game, meant to offer career guidance but no matter how well you played, it offered only four possible futures: teacher, ballerina, mother, or nurse.

Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

You'd be surprised, Theo. she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door.

It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn't see this crucial moment then for what it was; I suppose we never do.

Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

No second chances.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

View the problem as an opportunity to grow.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.

Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.

Barry Eisler.

What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.