Quotes
Quotes about Opportunity
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Observe the opportunity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die.]
