Opportunity Quotes - Page 3

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

Richelle E. Goodrich

An opportunist ventures nothing, believes in nothing and invests in nothing, therefore he ends with nothing.

Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

Earl Nightingale

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.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

Wallace D. Wattles

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door and open it, stop waiting around for someone to give it to you

Allowing yourself to be a conduitfor opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortunecannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknownsaying, she has rarely been known to knock

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed falls upon another until it feels like the world is collapsing around me. But when I yield, when I surrender to the necessary change, I can stand back and look at the beautiful picture created by what seemed to be my world falling apart.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

Tim Fargo

Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.

Stephan Labossiere

Behind every no entry sign there's a door.

If you come into contact with that rare once in a lifetime opportunity, instantly own it, remember all it takes is a slight pondering moment for a stake to be placed, the opportunity can and will easily be claimed by another.

Victoria Addino

When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in the game" and take the payout in stock that he would agree to hold for at least a year.” Jobs resisted. Finally, they compromised: Jobs would take $120 million in cash and $37 million in stock, and he pledged to hold the stock for at least six months.

Walter Isaacson

Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. " Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that he couldn't do anything but self destruct," he later said

Walter Isaacson

Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.

Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change.

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

Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.

Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.

Tammy L. Kubasko

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it.

If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility.

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register advances which in turn will promote further progress. The loss of industry and skill in Africa was extremely small, if we measure it from the viewpoint of modern scientific achievements or even by the standards of England in the late eighteenth century. However, it must be borne in mind that to be held back at one stage means that it is impossible to go on to a further stage. When a person is forced to leave school after only two years of primary school education, it is no reflection on him that he is academically and intellectually less developed than someone who had the opportunity to be schooled right through to university level. What Africa experienced in the early centuries of trade was precisely a loss of development opportunity, and this is of greatest importance. Pg. 105

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The world is in sore need of good listeners. And in our own lives, it’s amazing to recognize just how valuable listening can be for us. How many mistakes have you made because you didn’t listen well? Personally, I’ve made many—and I’ve missed out on some wonderful opportunities because I was more interested in sharing what I had to say than I was in listening to what someone else had to say.

Tom Walsh

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with each other, and no connection at all with anything else. We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Be fueled by the opportunities of today. Do not be passive in your life. Be courageous in driving forward in this journey of life. I know people will try to push you back. I know life will challenge you to find refuge in the past. I know the present induces fear. Do not be fooled into backwards living. Be courageous enough to keep moving forward.

Never pass up a valuable opportunity, because regret can last a lifetime.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

Elizabeth George

If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity.

what risk to a common man is an opportunity for a wise

Diligence and hard work sensitize you to recognize opportunity.

David P. Ingerson

Dare to seize every opportunity on your life's journey.

Lailah GiftyAkita

You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.

I am not sure if some people are luckier than others, but one thing’s sure: right place, right time, you can define it however you want, some people get more opportunities than others.

I don’t think carrying an umbrella during monsoons is luck.

Like some people are bad at math, some people are bad at talking to women. And some at both, now that’s luck I guess.

Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

How would you complete with people who are more talented, more popular, who get better training, better mentoring and who get their share of luck, without some luck?

Every once in life everyone has one time opportunity. So take your best shot or go to your mama and cry your ass off.

There’s randomness and there’s the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man.

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

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