Quotes About Opportunity

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have." —Coleman Cox

The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.

The difference that will make all the difference between success and failure, between achieving the quality of life you want and settling for less than you desire and deserve, lies one hundred percent in which of those little, "insignificant" actions you choose to do. This is why we are all capable of doing what it takes to be successful. We are all capable of being winners ... and yes, that includes you.

Luck is preparedness that eventually creates opportunity!

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

College? Who needed college. Kobe Bryant had decided to take his talents to the NBA.

Fear is the number one reason why people never live up to their potential.

There's an amazing opportunity that so few people ever have in their lives to fulfill a wish for somebody. It's so rare that such a simple act, like playing a song someone loves, can make someone so happy. If you have that opportunity—the power to do that for anyone—that's an incredible gift.

The people who seem the most like geniuses are not geniuses. They're just more comfortable with failing. They try more and they try harder than other people, and so they stumble onto more songs. It's pretty simple. People who don't pick up a pencil never write a poem. People who don't pick up a guitar and try every day don't write a whole lot of great songs. If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Whatever the times, suffering eventually touches every life. How we live with it, and help others to, is one of the great creative and ethical opportunities

We are forced to make choices and set priorities, but being very conscientious, HSPs often put themselves last. Or at least we give ourselves no more time off or opportunity to learn new skills than anyone else. In fact, however, we need more.

How discouraging to watch your friends enjoying something you are too afraid to try. Do not underestimate such discouragement. It can be just as present in adulthood as you see friends taking on careers, travel, moves, and relationships that you would fear. Yet deep inside you also know you have the same or more talent, desire, and potential.

Em tudo há alguma coisa de bom. A questão é descobrir onde está.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

This lifetime is yours to make what you will of it