Quotes About Opportunity

Success is often to be found at the edge of failure

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

'Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

When I wanted to publish my first book and all doors were closed, it was a friend, Dr. Stanley Obresi, from University of Ghana who introduced me to a publishing house. The rest is history.

Just one right friend in your life could introduce you to an uncommon business, marriage, or health relationship you never dreamt of. We call this the gateway of friendship.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

John Babsone Lane Soule

Patience prepares the mind for the opportunity.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.

Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers.

The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal's gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.

Money is life. Not in the sense that without money you starve. Not in the sense that capital gives one class power over the entire lives of another class. But in the sense that money is the token of, and the key to, every human capacity. The power to spend money is the power to live.

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

El tiempo es tu vida; ni más, ni menos. La manera cómo gastas las horas y los días es la manera como gastas la vida.

If there be no seed-time there will certainly be no harvest, and the youth of life is the seed-time of life.

If everyone had the same education, the inequality of income would be reduced by less than 10 percent.

Mrs. Davis raised a complaint about A.T. & T.'s contributions to charity, giving Mr. Kappel the opportunity to reply that he was glad the world contained people more charitable than she. (Tax-exempt applause.)

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.