Quotes About Opportunity

I didn't want my epitaph to be "She Played It Safe.

Boy, you don't know it, but you really are still a baby. You're amazingly fucking young. Don't write off the rest of your life like that, okay? There's some stunning, gorgeous moments waiting for you. Don't make a plan that'll make you miss out on them.

A job? Would I be able to keep a cut of the money?

You know, I never thought this would be a thing to put my money in, but I'm wondering if it's too late in life to invest in adult diapers.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

If you don't do something because it might get wrong, you'll never do anything.

What I'm trying to say is, you can't wait for somebody else to decide whether you get another chance. What if nobody ever does?

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. (from the Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952)

The market doesn't sleep.

You can become rich easily but it's quite hard to become bourgeois

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Ella vio en ese nuevo enamoramiento la oportunidad de escapar de su realidad e inventarse otra. Cuando cambias de pais y de idioma, todo tiene otro sentido.

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success?

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What I do know is that if one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.