Quotes About Opportunity

Bisexuality automatically doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

California is a garden of EdenA paradise to live in or seeBut believe it or notYou won't find it so hotIf you ain't got the do-re-mi

Here on the West Coast a soda jerk, willing to choose between a chick and a Thunderbird, can have the Thunderbird.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he's never given an opportunity to show what he's made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

Quick now, give up this idle pondering! And let's be off into the great wide world! I tell you: the fool who speculates on things is like some animal on a dry heath, led by an evil fiend in endless circles, while fine green pastures lie on every side.

Considering that less than 4 percent of the world's population are immigrants (living in a country they were not born in), the assumption that one's life chances are independent of one's country of origin is deceptive

Those less affluent, less educated, and less skillful fear being thrown into the global competition as their chance of winning are minute and the price of failure unbearable. They tend to prefer "a bird in hand than two in the bush.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Les choses se seraient arrêtées là s'il n'y avait pas eu ce coup de vent. Si on m'avait dit qu'un simple coup de vent pouvait changer le cours d'une vie, j'aurais peut-être pris les devant. Mais à dix-sept ans, on se sent en mesure de retomber sur ses pattes quoi qu'il arrive.

Run after her… One day, man will surely be able to catch a comet, but all the glories of this world will not console the man who allows the real opportunity in his life to slip away.

The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s'évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur bâtir une nation, il n'est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer au fond des gargotes afin de joindre les deux bouts...

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard or stand on the platform and watch as it passes, and there is nothing sadder than an abandoned station.

I fundamentally believe that if you empower people, you can move mountains. I fundamentally believe that if people are given a fair go, the world's a better place, people are happier individually and society progresses.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Opportunity is born with each new year.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.

Even when circumstances turn for the very worst," continued his visitor, "we can still find fresh opportunities.

The awesome privilege of being healthy and free to choose how to spend our time.

when I meet people—business leaders, entertainers, and others—they tell me that what seemed to be the worst thing that could ever happen to them turned out, with the benefit of hindsight, to be the very best.

What seems devastating at the time can turn out to be a new beginning, a different chapter.