Quotes About Opportunity

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

I don't want to play the fat guy or the friend for the rest of my life

Education is literally the difference between success and failure, or even life and death for many children.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.

Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

Every place you land in life has a reason and a lesson.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.