Opportunity Quotes - Page 32

• I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

  Carlos Slim

  Latin, America, Mexico

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• Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Promise, Matter

  "Michelle Obama in London to promote global education drive for girls". www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2015.

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• Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Criticism, Needs

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• Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.

  Mason Cooley

  Luck, Gone, Begging

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• I fell in love with commerce and the opportunities that come with compelling visual storytelling.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Storytelling, Commerce, Visuals

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• If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

  Joel Osteen

  Favors, Promotion, Where You Are

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• You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

  Susan Egan

  Knows

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• Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.

  Adnan

  Fall, Years, Rose

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• Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Melancholy

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.202, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, Hands, Justice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.631, Modern Library

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• Debts that must be paid ... that sums up the concept of karma. But I would add that karma is not a burden that you have to carry. It is also an opportunity to learn, a chance to practice love and forgiveness, a chance to learn lessons that are valuable to us. Karma offers us the chance to wipe our dirty slate clean, to erase the wrong doings of the past.

  Dada Vaswani

  Karma, Dirty, Past

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• Turning a breakup into a break-over ... We want women to know that as bad as it can be, it can also be an opportunity to reinvent yourself.

  Greg Behrendt

  Break Up, Breakup, Want

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• I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Father, Son, Men

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• Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Growth, Way

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• I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Strength, Lying, Years

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• I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Thinking

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• In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Jobs, Missing, Growth

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• Since civilizing children takes the better part of two decades--some twenty years of nonstop thinking, nurturing, teaching, coaxing, rewarding, forgiving, warning, punishing, sympathizing, apologizing, reminding, and repeating, not to mention deciding what to do when--I now understand that one wrong move is invariably followed by hundreds of opportunities to be wrong again.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Moving, Teaching

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account.... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures?

  B. C. Forbes

  Gratitude, Mean, Leaving

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• Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

  B. C. Forbes

  Summer, Dog, Rip

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• Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Goal, Inward

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• A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.

  J. L. Carr

  School, Factories

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• I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

  Allan McNish

  Hurt, Winning, Waiting

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• Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Technique

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, December 1998.

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