Quotes About Opportunity

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

If it doesn't make callouses on a girl's hands it will make them on her heart. I've been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come." Something flared in her.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Kirk Douglas had engineered his social life with the cynical goal of meeting the rich and powerful, he would have ignored this Lauren Bacall. But so cynical and narrow-focused an approach isn't likely to produce good luck. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.

Except in such unusual circumstances, get in the habit of selling too soon. And when you've sold, don't torment yourself if the winning set continues without you. In all likelihood it won't continue long. If it does, console yourself by thinking of all the times when selling too soon preserved gains you would otherwise have lost.

There are some situations in human life, it is true, in which it may seem wiser to wait out bad times. But that is seldom a wise course where your money is concerned. If you let it get stuck in a bad venture, and if the problems last, you can go for years without having the use of that money. It's locked up when, instead, it should be out chasing gains for you in other, livelier ventures.

No matter how you define success, risk is a necessary ingredient of every successful life. Risk puts you in position to win.

Never take long-range plans seriously. Use them for general guidance as long as they seem to be taking you where you want to go, but whatever you do, don't get stuck with them. Throw them in the trash heap as soon as something better comes along.

Never be afraid to zigzag. Avoid wailing yourself into a category: "I'm a secretary...I'm in the computer business...I'm a Detroiter." You never know which direction your lucky breaks may come from. When they drift into reach, grab them.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings" (Prov. xxii. 29).

Actually, without the opportunity to make something go viral, social media would be nothing more than the good old Web 1.0.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man--Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do

The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live -- with your self-respect alive and growing.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

For just someone that want success without experiencing something similar, 100% of those, are always ignorant and end up in very tight spot. So it is a good idea to work for somebody then you'll learn the basics etc.