Quotes
Quotes about Opportunity
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditionsâit only guarantees equality of opportunity.
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
I feel that the progress I have made as a coach, as well as a person, is a direct result of the growth that I have made through my Church callings. I had the opportunity to serve as a bishop in a campus ward while I was still an assistant coach. When I was appointed head football coach in 1972, I decided to approach my role as a coach much the same as I did as a bishop, delegating responsibility to my assistants, putting responsibility on the players for self-improvement in all aspects of their lives, and using personal interviews with players to try to give positive reinforcement and encouragement so that they might do their very best and reach their full potential, both on and off the field.
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
It is never too late to be what you might have been. â¢George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. â¢Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. â¢Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? â¢Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. â¢Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. â¢Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. â¢Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. â¢Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. â¢Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. â¢Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? â¢Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. â¢Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. â¢Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. â¢Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. â¢Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. â¢Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. â¢Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. â¢Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. â¢Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. â¢M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. â¢Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. â¢Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. â¢Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. â¢Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. â¢Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. â¢James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. â¢Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. â¢W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. â¢Vince Lombardi or â¢Donald Kendall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. â¢Indira Gandhi I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. â¢Douglas Adams There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. â¢William Bennett The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. â¢Robert Frost When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. â¢Maksim Gorky One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. â¢Elbert Hubbard It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. â¢Jerome K Jerome One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. â¢Bertrand Russell Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. â¢Lily Tomlin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. â¢Robert Benchley Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. â¢Thomas Edison Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. â¢Sam Ewing Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. â¢David McCullough Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. â¢John G. Pollard Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. â¢Mark Twain
