Mark Twain Quotes

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

The trouble with opportunity is, it never announces when it comes. It's only after it's gone, you'd realize that you missed it.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time and play with Michael Jordan.

I feel like my career has always been a series of collisions and accidents. Being in the right place at the right time. Having the right haircut. It's so mad to think that it happened in the way that it happened.

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Know thine opportunity.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

So much in life came down to timing.

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.