Quotes About Opportunity

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

Offers came in thick and fast: from the king of Denmark, from the king

This country is founded on some very noble ideals but also some very big lies. One is that everyone has a fair chance at success. Another is that rich people have to be smart and hardworking or else they wouldn't be rich. Another is that if you're not rich, don't worry about it, because rich people aren't really happy. I am the white male living proof that all of that is garbage.

the acting profession itself is precisely and endlessly this: waiting in a room for your name to be called. And then you hear your name, and they take you through the blank door into the room.

One can scarcely conceive the full horror of it unless one is a parent who takes a close look at his children and then asks himself how he would feel if a group of men should come to his door and tell him they had decided - for reasons of convenience to them - that his children's lives would henceforth be restricted, their world smaller, their educational opportunities less, their future mutilated

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin, the greater the adventure).

At that moment, everyone walks on the sky. Maybe all great decisions are made without a net," The Wonder herself had told him. "There comes a time, in every life, when you must let go.

The student and the teacher had contrasting ideas about the sentence, which was: "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Now and forever," Juan Diego said, more confidently. He knew this was a promise to himself—to seize every opportunity that looked like the future, from this moment forward.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day the opportunities stop, you know?

Emigrant Gap. Califo

poor, or take a little chance

That men, who might have tower'd in the van Of all the congregated world, to fan And winnow from the coming step of time All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime Left by men-slugs and human serpentry, Have been content to let occasion die, Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.

I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

My mentality, uncontrollable and wanton as always, whispered to me a scheme so magnificent and daring that I shrank from the very thought of what I was hearing. Stop! I cried imploringly to my god-like mind. This is madness. But still I listened to the counsel of my brain. It was offering me the opportunity to Save the World Through Degeneracy.

Almost everyone else has had an opportunity to run the world. I cannot see why these people should not be given their chance.

Speculation, it has been noted, comes when popular imagination settles on something seemingly new in the field of commerce or finance.

When a mood of excitement pervades a market or surrounds an investment prospect, when there is a claim of unique opportunity based on special foresight, all sensible people should circle the wagons; it is the time for caution.

specialists. In all speculative episodes there is always an element of pride in discovering what is seemingly new and greatly rewarding in the way of financial instrument or investment opportunity. The individual or institution that does so is thought to be wonderfully ahead of the mob.

Leverage was magnificently available

If only I had truly taken advantage of the situation, seized and held and prized the multitudes of advantages the summer offered me; if only I had.

There are no problems, only solutions.

he started out with relatively little. He was born into the family of a respectable but forgettable Roman senator in 63 B.C.E.