Opportunity Quotes - Page 6

Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something,a gift of life to make a difference in the world.

Every time you shift a blame on what you could have taken responsibility for, you deny yourself an opportunity to learn and grow.

Gugu Mona

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opens for us.- Alexander Graham Bell

The umbrella won't stop the rain, but it will help you to get out during rainfall. As well as confidence is not going to guarantee your success, but it will give you the opportunity to achieve it.

Eyden I.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Robert Ferrigno

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful.

We tend to see what we are looking for.

Opportunity always knocks the door with hurdles. It's up to you either jump the hurdle to grab or owing to hurdle miss the opportunity .

Don't hang yourself with the slack you've been given.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Sometimes one needs to stay alone, a bit of loneliness gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens with a sudden bright idea. But those who never stay alone don't even know what's inside their brains.

Elijah Onyenmeriogu

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

Niccolò Machiavelli

No one remembers how you got a chance, they only remember what you did with it.

Stewart Stafford

Opportunities are taken or created, never given.

The period of time between eligibility to vote and the start of adulthood is a window of opportunity that the liberals are willing to exploit to their advantage.

It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

Thomas F. Woodlock

When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.

Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.

Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent.

Even locked doors can be unlocked in time.

Nobody gets through life without facing challenges. What's important is how we handle them. Tough times can be excellent opportunities to grow and become a better person.

Stay alert at all times, alert to any opportunity for rest.

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .

Some beautiful opportunities are like birds. They may be there but only till the next second!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Opportunities don't happen, you create them

I take the opportunity each day offers.

Andy Goldsworthy

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

How often had she wondered what would have happened if she'd remained with Jonathan? Not often, but regularly over the years. It was impossible not to have imagined that rejected future, a life of many countries, of vast and enduring adventure, of tiny rooms and rental houses. It was the sense of missed opportunity that returned to her, frightening but real, overwhelmingly real.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Robin R. Meyers

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Opportunity knocks only once.

Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar

We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.

By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.

Kevin Brockmeier

He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Van Jones

The truth is that there is opportunity right now in your present day. Every day offers its own set of golden opportunities.

We need to ask ourselves if we are passive spectators in life as we watch it simply go by or are we ready to grab the bull by its horns and join in the action.

Pause and remember: It is through our deepest trials and life hardships that we are given the greatest opportunity to find the person we have been looking for our whole life - our authentic beautiful self.

Opportunity to help others is the opportunity to help yourself in disguise

Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Act! Do something now. Some chances never come again. Seize the moment. Seize the day! Live to the fullest. Live to YOUR fullest potential.

You must look through an opportunity and not at it

Opportunities are visible to those who are looking for them.

It's not a competition, it's a doorway.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

Theodore Roosevelt

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Thomas A. Edison

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Julie Andrews Edwards

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.”“Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

Suzanne Collins

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

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

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Robert F. Kennedy

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