Quotes About Opportunity

Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.

He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

This, I am reminded, is why I love walking in the city, taking to the streets in pursuit of some spontaneous and near-arbitrary objectives. If one knocks oneself out of one's routine- and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs- then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.

This, I am reminded, is why I love walking in the city, taking to the streets in pursuit of some spontaneous and near-arbitrary objective. If one knocks oneself out of one's routine—and in so doing knocks others gently out of theirs—then one can now and again create these momentary opportunities to be better than one is.

Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren't meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Donde una puerta se cierra, otra se abre. 'Where a door is closed, another is opened.' – From Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!

Anything worth doing has risks." Hortense paused. "And believe me, this is worth doing.

For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.

The years from here on in will be what I make of them.

Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...

They want to live , Alex. They want the life they were cheated out of. So if they see an open door . . . or an open mind . . . some of them come in never intending to leave.

Failure: the renewable resource.

When it was too late for rescue, it was still early enough for revenge.

Don't you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

After all, there's no turning back the clock now. One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been. One should realize one has as good as most, perhaps better, and be grateful.

And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.

That was one reason why we always thought so much about being in the window. Each of us had been promised our turn, and each of us longed for it to come.

I wish him the very best. All I'm saying is that there are all kinds of ways to lead a successful life.

It's a great privilege, after all, to have been given a part to play, however small, on the world's stage.

What advantage does it bring a man to be so tall? For every high-dangling pear I reached there's been an arrow threatened me would have flown over a smaller man!