Quotes About Opportunity

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

The future is today.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

Good luck with the world.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

Life Begins at Forty.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

Good English, well spoken and written, will open more doors than a college degree. Bad English will slam doors you didn't even know existed.

Boulton's strategic plan was on schedule. He had discerned an opportunity; had exploited it;* and was soon enough unsatisfied by it. By the end of 1782, he had identified the next conquest for the steam engine, an arena whose potential dwarfed that of the mining industry: wheels.

There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree: You can sit on an acorn and wait for it to grow, or you can climb the tree.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel!

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.

The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of tomorrow.

We must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.