Opportunity Quotes

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Sweet

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Optimist, Difficulty

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Society, Human, Individual

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Time, Failure, Again

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Looks, Missed

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Optimist, Difficulty

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Crisis, Two, Word

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Business, Enough

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
Rahm Emanuel

Crisis, Mean, Before

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain

Able, Until, Seldom

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler

Down, Door, Beat

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou

Plain, Virtuous, Scarcity

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Understand, Between, Able

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Gillian Anderson

Change, Good, Hope

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Jim Rohn

Important, Gift, Emotions

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Against, Lies

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing, Ability

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins

Life, Give, Gift

America is another name for opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

America, Another, Name

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Success, Secret

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Complains

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey

Happiness, Find, Key

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho

Mistakes, Two, Acting

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

Success, Best, Ladder

If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.
Tim Tebow

Life, Love, Good

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Hard, Around

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
Bob Feller

Life, Success, Game

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant

Negative, Rise, Pressure

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar

Good, Best, Successful

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Life, Cannot, Everyone

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