Quotes About Opportunity

Luck is the residue of preparation,

I made a mental note to buy stock in the Iraqi padlock company.

In trading, 80 percent of your profits come from 20 percent of your ideas.

The best trades are the ones in which you have all three things going for you: fundamentals, technicals, and market tone.

Anyway, there's a time and place for everything, and while this may have been the place, it wasn't the time.

the very moment you are caught, there is always a chance.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

The right to choose is always the key to progress for women, as it is for men.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Kids get second chances. I like to think I'm using mine.

I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

the world is full of pain, uncertainty, and injustice. But in this vulnerable human life, every loss is an opportunity either to shut out the world or to stand up with dignity and let the heart respond.

One famous Zen master actually described spiritual practice as "one mistake after another," which is to say, one opportunity after another to learn. It is from "difficulties, mistakes, and errors" that we actually learn. To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others—we are at ease with the difficulties of life.

If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The

Fear is the membrane between what we know and something new. It tells us we are about to open to something bigger than the world we usually experience.

If you don't lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Celebrate whenever and whatever you can. Wed, bring forth a child, repair a broken door, cut the grass, and do not waste the opportunity to beat the drum with friends and throw a party. It is the essence of life and joy. —CHEN LO COBB, "CAREFUL WHERE YOU WALK," FROM COLLECTIBLES, 614

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't--take two!

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

If something both excites you and scares you, it is probably worth doing.