Quotes about Opportunity

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

He who hesitates is last.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Sugarhill Gang' on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, 'What's going on? How did those guys get on national TV?' And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?