Quotes About Opportunity

You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.

i want... i want a chance to do it all again. To do it... right.' Tears showed in the Old Man's eyes. 'How ever did it go so wrong, Temple? I had so many advantages. So many opportunities. All squandered. All slipped away like sand through a glass. So many disappointments...' 'Most of them you brought on yourself' 'Of course.' Cosca gave a ragged sigh. 'But they're the ones that hurt the worst.

They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment

Suddenly he felt that there had been so much he needed to say to his father. He had always supposed they would discuss the important things later. The profound things. But it would never happen. There had only been a fixed time in his presence, and Orso had pissed it all away talking about the weather, and there would be no more.

The birth of spring is perhaps not the best time to cross a mountain range,' observed Longfoot under his breath. Bayaz looked sharply sideways. 'Some would say the best time to cross an obstacle is when one finds oneself on the wrong side of it! Or do you suggest we wait for summer?

Then you've got a chance to do better next time.' 'Next time?' 'Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

The sad truth is that pretty people can slide through all kinds of scrapes that'd end very badly for the ugly.

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

Nadie tiene mucho tiempo, y el tiempo que pasas compadeciéndote es tiempo perdido.

Change, Friendly . . . change is a funny thing. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.

When you're down to small stakes, you have to play long odds.

But a man lost in the desert, as the Gurkish say, must take such water as he is offered.

Siempre puede intentar hacerlo mejor la próxima vez. En eso consiste la vida.

All I know is there's no changing yesterday. You can only look to do better tomorrow.

It is hard to lose something." Skara turned back toward the towering truss. "But it gives you the chance to make something better.

Akkora csúszómászó volt, hogy munkát vállalhatott volna egy terráriumban.

We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

but if you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.

What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?" Clover saw no need to open his eyes. "Results, woman. Results.

If you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.

I wish I'd met you sooner,' he said. 'Things might be different.' 'You didn't and they're not. So let's take what we can get , eh?