Quotes about Opportunity

America is the greatest country in the world.

We need to recognize the opportunity that green jobs present to Florida and to the economy.

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.

I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad,—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill,—but a sort o' engineer, or a surveyor, or an auctioneer and vallyer, like Riley, or one o' them smartish businesses as are all profits and no outlay, only for a big watch-chain and a high stool.

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

It's never too late to be what you might have been.--