Quotes About Opportunity

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

You've got no time to lose / You are young, and you must be living / Go now, you are forgiven.

Everything can be used in a lifetime; I've discovered that.

Dear God of new beginnings-here I am again .

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."

When I see an opportunity for humor, I grab it! After all, life is too short to be grumpy.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be.

help us give books to kids who need them. Who crave them. And whose lives will be forever changed by them.

You're only poor if you choose to be. Meaning: you can be rich in spirit, you can be rich in thought, you can be rich in talent and you can be rich in all those wonderful things.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!

There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

One of the songs we recorded for 'The Long Run' was called 'You're Really High, Aren't You?' Which never really made it onto a record, but later on, it became 'Heavy Metal.' I took that track that wasn't used, and when I was invited to write a song for that movie, I took that track and recorded that song for that movie.

Shortly after I moved to Los Angeles, I was looking for work, and I happened to be invited to Ray's studio and sat in and played on a couple of his demos. I didn't charge him a dime for it. I was on cloud nine to be working in the same room as Ray Charles, one of my huge idols.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.