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Quotes About Opportunity

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
~ Alexander the Great
Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
~ Jeff Bezos
I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
~ Lou Holtz
My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.
~ Rick Scott
I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
~ Debbie Ford
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
~ Herb Brooks
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.
~ William H. McRaven
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
~ James Gray
We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.
~ Marisa Tomei
I didn't actually figure out how to get guidance, so I just decided to go to school at University of Southern California because they sent me a glossy brochure.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
~ John Dewey
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
~ Walker Percy
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
~ Yogi Berra
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
~ Thomas Paine
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
~ Carl Sandburg
The door to happiness opens outward.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
~ Lynn Johnston
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
~ George Santayana
Grab it while you can — grab every scrap of happiness while you can
~ Noel Coward
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
~ Peter Lynch
Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."
~ Brian Tracy
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
~ Charles Caleb Colton