Opportunity Quotes - Page 9

• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

  William Wordsworth

  Dust, Gold, Common

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.269

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• People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Success, Work, Thinking

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• I knock unbidden once at every gate--
  If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
  And they who follow me reach every state
  Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
  Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
  Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
  Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
  I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Sleep, Fate, Doubt

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• Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

  Abraham Cowley

  Past, Fortune, Behinds

  Abraham Cowley (1967). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Abraham Cowley”

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• When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

  Jesse Jackson

  Swings, Doors, Racism

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• Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Blessing, Boredom, Matter

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Opportunity is the great bawd.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Sept. 1735

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• Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

  Abba Eban

  Missing, Palestinian

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988

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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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• All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

  Will Friedle

  Directors, Fantastic

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• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  Flip Wilson

  Say Anything, Negative, Would Be

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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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• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Fitness, Motivation

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

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• This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Hands, History, Giving

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• I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heartbroken, Gratitude, Humor

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• I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

  John Gielgud

  Thinking, Actors, Want

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• There's always an opportunity to make a difference

  Michael Dell

  Differences, Making A Difference, Business Opportunity

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• Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Way, Faces, Stamps

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Years, Tomorrow May Never Come

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• Danger will wink on opportunity.

  John Milton

  Danger

  John Milton (1839). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Good Man, Neighbors And Friends

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Long, Waiting

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.238, Wordsworth Editions

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• Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

  Robert Breault

  Distance, Next, Chance

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