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Opportunity Quotes
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."
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"My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen."
50
"It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together."
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"Never surrender opportunity for security."
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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"The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball."
24
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
24
"We also have a real opportunity to join NATO."
21
"I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity."
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."
15
"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."
14
"I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful."
14
"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
13
"For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity."
12
"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
12
"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
12
"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
11
"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."
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"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty."
10
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
10
"So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me."
9
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
9
"The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band."
8
"I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas."
8
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
8
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
8
"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."
8
"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."
8
"I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way."
8
"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
8
"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."
8
"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us."
8
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
8
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
8
"When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity."
7
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
7
"The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America."
7
"In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king."
7
"We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do."
7
"It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV."
7
"I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!"
7
"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."
7
"I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research."
7
"Never look at an opportunity at face value & pass it on that basis. Examine the income vs. the profit vs. expenses then make your decision."
7
"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together."
7
"From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy."
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