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Opportunity Quotes


"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."


"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."


"Don't live your life not knowing what to do with your time."


"I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway."


"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."


"Infinite potential exists for what actions can be taken."


"Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways."


"You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you."


"I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right."


"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."


"When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!"


"It's not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it's about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives."


"At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession."


"If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief."


"Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk."


"It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that."


"The latent abundance of your inner most resources matters less. What matter most is the impact you can make with your inner resources and the distinctive footprints you can leave with what is within you. The excuse not to dare is there for everybody. When you see so many people crowded at the entrance, think of the roofing and if the roofing is too high, think of the next door and if the next door is not penetrable, create a door within the wall."


"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"


"It may be that you've just missed a great opportunity that should have been your turning point towards the direction of greatness. What next? Go into your closet and learn your lessons; "opportunity missed may not be regained, but new opportunity can be recreated with the will that have to work harder!"


"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."


"The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you."


"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists."


"Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you."


"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."


"When life gives you a second chance, don't just run with it fly."


"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."


"Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances."


"If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former."


"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."


"Today is the day you've been waiting for."


"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."


"The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless."


"Want and belief in lack shrink your opportunities."


"I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules."


"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."


"Every good and great idea must have a good window and doors."


"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."


"Opportunities that always fail need change, else they will continue to keep failing till the future have its end."


"It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players."



"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."


"Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity."


"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."


"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."


"Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'."


"Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!"


"It is never too late or too early, you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do."


"Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires."


"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."


"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
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