Quotes About Opportunity

what life had taught me is that where we come from is a point -- not the starting point, not the defining point -- just a point. It's where we are that really counts.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, male nurses ride the "glass escalator"; although they are in the minority, they receive higher wages and faster promotions than women in the same jobs.

Don't let yourself do something simply because you've started on a path and feel that you should complete it. Life is too short for that.

It's better to make a change now than to keep living your mistake simply because you worked hard to get there.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.

This will do, said he, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand. And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.

A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.

Chicago was "the only great city in the world to which all its citizens have come for the one common, avowed object of making money

in the kingdom of the blind," as the French proverb has it, "the one-eyed man is king";

Ya Abdul," Aziz said quietly, "for each of us in this universe of tears, Allah places a special treasure. Some people never find theirs, and go to the Day of Decision unfulfilled. I've found my treasure, and I knew it right away. You don't let it get away. Allah has placed yours right under your nose. But your neck is too stiff to bend.

Rapid learning offers another trace of talent. Sometimes a talent doesn't signal itself through yearning. For a myriad of reasons, although the talent exists within you, you don't hear its call. Instead, comparatively late in life, something sparks the talent, and it is the speed at which you learn a new skill that provides the telltale clue to the talent's presence and power.

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.

I would not like to hear from any of you that you can't find qualified blacks. I have spent my life trying to find qualified whites and some of you don't qualitfy yet.

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

The future of America is bound up in the present crisis. If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have a second-class citizenship.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Everything in life is luck.