Veronica Roth Quotes

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

It's definitely important to be open enough to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Opportunity is the great bawd.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

When you have the opportunity to do something, you have to jump on it.

It's not a question of getting the opportunities, it's a question of noticing that opportunities are there.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

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

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind, loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

It's important to take risks.

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.