Quotes About Opportunity

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'

It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

That is our generation's task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

In the U.S., we believe the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.