Oppurtunity Quotes

• There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, 1964.

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• Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

  John Dryden

  Success, Strong, Opportunity

  'The Conquest of Granada' (1670) pt. 2, act 4, sc. 3

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• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Opportunity, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

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• There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.

  J. Paul Getty

  Opportunity, Profit, Businessman

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• Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Opportunity, Crisis, Seeds

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• These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

  Bill Cosby

  Rocks, People, Knuckleheads

  "Bill Cosby's Controversial Remarks". www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2004.

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• Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

  George Washington

  Debt, Remember, Danger

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Uplifting, Taken

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Looks, Bigger

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• Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Tuning, Broadcasting

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• The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

  Helen Keller

  Opportunity, Hands, Abuse

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• I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth

  Aneurin Bevan

  Lying, Opportunity, Welcome

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• They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

  Jay Carr

  Moving, Proud, Cynicism

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• Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

  Jesse Jackson

  Opportunity, Preparation, Luck

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• Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

  Earl Warren

  Opportunity, States, Made

  Earl Warren (1959). “The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren”

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• An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

  Robert South

  Opportunity, Obstacles

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• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Abraham Lincoln (1954). “The War Years, 1854-1865, Volume 3”

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• I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  Florence Nightingale

  Women, Nursing, Opportunity

  "The Life of Florence Nightingale" Vol. II, by Edward Tyas Cook, (p. 406), 1914.

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• A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

  Oscar Wilde

  Opportunity, Optimism, Complaining

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• Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

  Steig Larsson

  Thieves, Catchy

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• Great moments are born great opportunity.

  Nikola Tesla

  Moments, Born, Great Moments

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• We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

  Laurence Overmire

  Real, Opportunity, Generations

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• They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once

  Pete du Pont

  Opportunity, Opportunity Knocks

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• In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Opportunity, Men, Needs

  J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isidor Isaac Rabi (1969). “Oppenheimer”

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• But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Regret, Fate, Opportunity

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