Quotes about opportunity

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“… one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”

“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In”

“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can
inhabit”

“Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.”

“Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.”

“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”

“Opportunity, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.”

“It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.”

“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”

“Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.”

“One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.”

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“Limitations are possibilities…
Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves…”

“There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.”

“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that”

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.”

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.”

“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”

“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.”

“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”

“A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.”

“There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher”

“Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity.”

“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.”

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.”

“Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.”

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at de sun."”

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”

“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”

“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”

“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”

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

“At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.”

“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”

“Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.”

“When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.”

“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”

“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”

“God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.”

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.”

“acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.”

“Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.”

“I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)”

“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

“This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”

“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”

“Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible. I would fain teach women that self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

“What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?"
- "Beauty Queens”

“Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.”

“I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.”

“Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God's sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.”

“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home."
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:”

“Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.”

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

“They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.”

“Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.”

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”

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

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

“The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek
opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you
desire.”

“Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

“How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)”

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

“Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”

“It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.”

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting—a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.”

“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.”

“because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth”

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”

“You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.”

“American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.”

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

“Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”