Quotes About Opportunity

What would you do if you knew you could not fail.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately.

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

Make the most of your yard of space and your inch of time.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

That was a tremendous learning experience," said McCarthy. "Never judge a book by its cover; open it up. If you treat a kid who is buying a $19.95 belt the same as a businessman buying a $1,995 Oxford suit, you will be successful. That kid might become a customer for life.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Nordstrom is looking to hire entrepreneurs—empowered self-starters, who seize opportunities to create and build their own businesses; to be franchisees within the larger Nordstrom franchise.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything.

Søren Kierkegaard: «Atreverse es perderse un instante, no atreverse es perderse para siempre».

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.

The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good or our neighbors with new found riches. We have to give it our all.

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth.

Tempus breve est, Ora et labora. We aren't given much time on this earth. We have to pray and work, not go pushing our luck with soccer pools.

The creation of conditions by which an entire people who have lived in exploitation and illiteracy gains access to the highest levels of knowledge and creativity is one of the most beautiful achievements of a revolution.

Sometimes it's the sharp, unexpected turns of life that turn out to be our best teachers and ultimately, might just be in your best interest, too.

Midlife is not the end of anything, but in fact the beginning of a whole new phase you can look forward to.

The Australian is forcefully loquacious, until the moment of expressing any emotion. He is aggressively committed to equality and equal-opportunity for all men, except for black Australians. He has high assurance in anything he does combined with a gnawing lack of confidence in anything he thinks.

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don't, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.

It starts with doors, which, when you think about it, all of life does.