Opportunity Quotes

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

With opportunity comes responsibility.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

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.

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the last one.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities

What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

The world is a magnificent place. What are you going to do with it?

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.

Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

Every positive thing in your life represents a single unique blessing. Every negative thing in your life has the opportunity to become a double blessing. For when you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force.

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

Every wall is a door.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets.

Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it.Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later.Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.

There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.

Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.