Quotes About Opportunity

Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueño, y quiero hoy aprovecharla

When they lock the door, climb out the window. – Mr. Morrison, volunteer at the Humane Society

This minute is passing. And it will never come again. Never in all the world. When it is gone, it is gone. No power on earth could bring it back again. - Carson McCullers

Seeing persistence as the key to success is also democratic. If hanging in there is what's required, then all the other characteristics and advantages one person might have over another—education, class, privilege—are taken off the table.

The second was my stupidity in not availing myself of the opportunity of buying 'La Terre Labourée', of Miró, in London in 1939 for fifteen hundred dollars. Now, if it were for sale, it would be worth well over fifty thousand.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck

Freedom is up to you to fly.

You don't get rich from doing physics, but you do get an opportunity to go to all the places the rich would go to if they had the time.

you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

that if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!!

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the choices that make you who you are.

When you are on the edge of your purpose, the ledge upon which you stand might begin to shake.

While it is God who opens the door of opportunity, you must be available to walk through it.

Isolation separates you from opportunity, as people need people, and people hire other people.

Go and wake up your luck.