Quotes About Opportunity

Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion.

Welcome! I said—the most dangerous word in the world.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.

There are so many doors to walk through in life, you can't be afraid of all of them, even if you know one of them might be your last.

Emily Dickinson, the poet, said a beautiful thing. "I dwell in possibility".

Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he

find some opportunity within the "disaster".

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

My solution was to make that a feature, not a bug.

These creatures are opportunistic cowards, afraid to take on something larger than them.

Opportunity beckoned. As the Princess admitted: 'I have learned much over the last years. From now on I am going to own myself and be true to myself. I no longer want to live someone else's idea of what and who I should be. I am going to be me.

One of the reasons why people come to America is that there are fewer speed bumps to the top of the ladder in comparison with other countries.

It isn't always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

The prize seemed worth the possible cost.

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience

If he lasts a year, he'll go far.' Talleyrand on Napoleon's consulship

Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa

Winning is not enough if one doesn't take advantage of success.

When you make some great mistake,' he philosophized, 'it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end