Quotes About Opportunity

I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open. I stepped into those woods and my life began.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity

The early bird who gets the worm works for somebody who comes in late and owns the worm farm.

You said if X has something valuable and Y comes along and takes it away from him, and there is absolutely no way in the world X can ever get it back, then you come along and make a deal with X to get it back, and keep half. Then you just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ live on that until it starts to run out. Is that the way it is, really?

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. —GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUIS OF HALIFAX

The world is the same world. You make it or you don't make it, honey. Nobody picks you up and brushes you off and gives you another run at it.

uno no puede tener éxito en los negocios si no tiene un olfato para las oportunidades.

Aint no good place to look for a job, young feller. . . . There's jobs all right. . . . I'll be sixty-five years old in a month and four days an I've worked sence I was five I reckon, an I aint found a good job yet.

And don't forget this, if a man's a success in New York, he's a success!

Oh I know darling, it's nothing but money in New York.

Most men wait to move until victory is guaranteed.

always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.

Our whole journey into authentic masculinity centers around those cool-of-the-day talks with God. Simple questions change hassles to adventures; the events of our lives become opportunities for initiation.

You can find that life—if you are willing to embark on a great adventure.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962]

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.

The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty.

The famous words of Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statute of Liberty read: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Until 1921 this was an accurate picture of our society. Under present law it would be appropriate to add: as long as they come from Northern Europe, are not too tired or too poor or slightly ill, never stole a loaf of bread, never joined any questionable organization, and can document their activities from the past two years.

Life's not fair but not always to your disadvantage.