Quotes About Opportunity

Sometimes you have to risk something to get something out of something.

Failure is the first ladder of success.

?ovjek je proklet, i žali za svim putevima kojima nije prošao.

Teško je dok se ne odlu?iš, tada sve prepreke izgledaju neprelazne, sve teško?e nesavladive. Ali kad se otkineš od sebe neodlu?nog, kad pobiješ svoju malodušnost, otvore se pred tobom neslu?eni putevi, i svijet više nije sku?en ni pun prijetnji.

Ne vjerujem da mi je unaprijed zapisan put kojim ?u pro?i, jer ne vjerujem u neki naro?it red ovoga svijeta. Ne odlu?ujemo, ve? se zati?emo. Strmoglavljeni smo u igru, punu nebrojenih izmjena, jednog odre?enog trenutka, kad nas samo ta prilika ?eka, jedina koja nas može sa?ekati, u toku miješanja. Ne možes je zaobi?i, ni odbiti. Tvoja je, kao voda u koju padneš. Pa plivaš, ili potones.

Chance decided my fate and the path my life took, and most often I was faced with a fait accompli, and fell into one of the possible currents; only a different chance could cast me into another. You could neither avoid it nor refuse it. It was yours, like the water you fell into. And you'd either sink or swim.

Money takes care of those who take care of money. Invest it with care and it will take care of you.

Your Attitude determines your Socioeconomic Altitude

In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of self-worth to middle-class boys of no particular merit. I will, however, grant them something. Without the first school, I would not have ended up at the second. Without the second, I would not have attended St Oswald's. Without St Oswald's, I would not have met Finn. Without Finn, there would be no story.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

At the podium Faith said, "Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but...' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

Yeah, you were lucky you got to come here when you did. But what was most exciting about it when you were here was the fact that you were young. That was the best part.

Whenever I give a talk at colleges I meet young women who say, 'I'm not a feminist, but . . .' By which they mean, 'I don't call myself a feminist, but I want equal pay, and I want to have equal relationships with men, and of course I want to have an equal right to sexual pleasure. I want to have a fair and good life. I don't want to be held back because I'm a woman.

Or maybe they don't even want babies, some of these women, and life opens out to them in an endless field of work. And once in a while the world responds in a big way, letting them in, giving them a key, a crown. It does happen, it does. But usually it doesn't.

Corporate America had tried to get women to behave as badly as men, Faith Frank said, but women did not have to capitulate.

To live in a world of female power—mutual power—felt like a desirable dream to Zee. Having power meant that the world was like a pasture with the gate left open, and that there was nothing stopping you, and you could run and run.

We can't be afraid of change, or else we'll miss out on everything.

But what happened to the talented women who lacked sharp cheekbones or an ease in the universe? The ones who had no attachments to powerful men?

So many things you never think you'll do until you do them.

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.