Quotes About Opportunity

There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Successful people tended to seek a sponsor—an individual within the account who helped them, advised them, and, if necessary, represented them in places where they couldn't gain access.

One of the less appealing attributes of the American experience is the desire to shut the door on anyone coming in behind you.

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.

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To burn the helicopters would be another act of great psychological value, and the battalion commander did not want to surrender the opportunity lightly.

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. [If he had], Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.

We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when it pleases. Sometimes, it stays for life; other times it stays for a second, a day, a month or a year. So don't fear love when it comes simply because it makes you vulnerable. But don't be surprised when it leaves either. Just be glad you had the opportunity to experience it.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.