Quotes About Opportunity

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.

She finally said: 'I want to provide you with the opportunity to be free to make a choice of belonging with someone, but never to someone else'.

The things we fear most in organisations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.

This very moment is a seed from which tomorrow's flowers grow.

È inutile indagare le occasioni mancate. Non sai mai se ti sei salvato dalla morte, o ti sei perso la vera vita.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler

Don't waste your energies kicking against an open door,

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

A week is a long time in politics

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.

When Sarah Marston learned that her Aunt Hilda had left her a cottage and two thousand pounds, she realised that at last she could leave her husband.

I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which way to go...

You who had not been allowed to finish tenth grade but sent to be a frightened chambermaid, carried home every week armloads of books from the library rummaging them late at night, insomniac, riffling the books like boxes of chocolates searching for the candied cherries, the nuts, hunting for the secrets, the formulae, the knowledge those others learned that made them shine and never ache.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

Be willing to acknowledge that there is a way out and a better life waiting for you. It will motivate you to action.

Stories can seem like tragedies, depending where they stopped.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.