Quotes About Opportunity

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Tomorrow will be a new day.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Let us make hay while the sun shines.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad

La imposibilidad de poder replantearte el pasado y rectificarlo, es una de las limitaciones más crueles de la condición humana. La vida sería más llevadera si dispusiéramos de una segunda oportunidad.

Mas afinal, o que se leva da vida, senão os remorsos? Remorsos do que poderia ter sido e não foi, e do que se perdeu depois de ter sido. Remorsos do que devia ter sido dito e feito, e não o foi a tempo, ou do que foi demasiadamente dito e feito. Remorsos destes eternos desencontros, desta sensação de que nada existe no seu tempo certo, de chegar sempre tarde ou partir cedo demais.

Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

Não escolhi nada nem estou em situação de escolher. Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead.

The way to grow while enjoying life is to create a higher form of order out of the entropy that is an inevitable condition of living. This means taking each new challenge not as something to be repressed or avoided, but as an opportunity for learning and for improving skills.

A community should be judged good not because it is technologically advanced, or swimming in material riches; it is good if it offers people a chance to enjoy as many aspects of their lives as possible, while allowing them to develop their potential in the pursuit of ever greater challenges.

one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.

Because our present social arrangements, however, do not provide adequate challenges for the skills teenagers have, they must discover opportunities for action outside those sanctioned by adults.

The quality of experience of people who play with and transform the opportunities in their surroundings, as Joe did, is clearly more developed as well as more enjoyable than that of people who resign themselves to live within the constraints of the barren reality they feel they cannot alter.

Of course we don't have to undertake any of these plans. But if we don't, chances are, sooner or later, we will regret it.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth.

person also needs access to a domain. This depends to a great extent on luck. Being born to an affluent family, or close to good schools, mentors, and coaches obviously is a great advantage. It does no good to be extremely intelligent and curious if I cannot learn what it takes to operate in a given symbolic system.

Science is very much fun. And I think women should have the opportunity to have fun.

The American laughed and scoffed at him. He said, "You know, I have an MBA from Stanford, and I can help you. You should spend more time fishing, and with the proceeds you could buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, and eventually you'd have a fleet of fishing boats, and then instead of selling your catch to that middleman over there, you could sell directly to the processor,

The American replied, "Maybe fifteen to twenty years." "But what then, Señor? What after the fifteen to twenty years?" The American laughed and said, "Ah, that's the best part. Because after that, when the time is right, you'd sell your company stock to the public, you'd become filthy rich, and you'd make millions.