Opportunity Quotes - page 3

Never surrender opportunity for security. (Branch Rickey)
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. View quote
John Dewey
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. View quote
José Rizal
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
The separation of families to me is very close to my heart because we lived that as immigrants. I strongly feel that we are all connected, and having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life, makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another. I am privileged to help in some way and I will always take that opportunity. View quote
Gloria Estefan
OPPORTUNITY, n. A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
François Mitterrand
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. (Seneca)
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. View quote
Margaret Cho
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. View quote
Rahm Emanuel
Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Your margin is my opportunity. View quote
Jeff Bezos
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster. View quote
David Icke
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. (Woodrow Wilson)
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. View quote
Doris Lessing
I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths. View quote
Demi Moore
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. View quote
William Wordsworth