Opportunity Quotes - Page 8

• Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

  Bobby Unser

  Success, Sports, Fda

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• It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Humble, Simple, Simplicity

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Lying, Problem

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Men, Cities

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• Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

  Bayard Taylor

  Wise, Men, Let It Go

  Bayard Taylor (2016). “A Journey to Central Africa: Egypt and Soudan, 1851”, p.43, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

  Steve Finley

  Play, Six, Used

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• LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Frowning, Lasts, Makers

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Vanishing, Wealth, Theft

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

  James Geary

  Doors, Needs, Faces

  James Geary (2008). “Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Kids, Creative

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• The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Hands, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

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• The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Self, Groups, Limits

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.159, Basic Books

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• At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Artist, Idols, County Fair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

  Laurence Graff

  People, Design, Lucky

  "British businessman". Interview with Godfrey Barker, Evening Standard's ES Magazine, December 17, 2007.

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• There are so many dreams beyond our nights, and so much sunshine beyond our gray walls. But we can't see it when we stay at home. There is so much sky above our roof. Is the door so old that it won't open, or are we at home because we're afraid of catching a chill?

  Francoise Hardy

  Dream, Wall, Home

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• Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.

  Ovid

  Hands, Fruit, Pluck

  Ovid, G. P. Goold (1985). “The art of love, and other poems”

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, African American, Preparation

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Graduation, Golden

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• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• You create your opportunities by asking for them.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Sports, Positivity

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• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, Wise, Knowledge

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.339, Routledge

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Uplifting, Stars, Sky

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• It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Differences

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• The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Taken, Men, Chance

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