Opportunity Quotes

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The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he… — Erik Erikson
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God, or a source of divinity, put together a map for our lives. That map includes opportunities-not outcomes-but opportunities. And those opportunities are contracts [or]… — Caroline Myss
The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes… — Dale Carnegie
The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was… — Robert Ringer
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your… — Jane Goodall
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday. — Brian Tracy
Life is the sum of your choices. — Albert Camus
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made. — Stephen Covey
Rich people see opportunities. Poor people see obstacles. Rich people see potential growth. Poor people see potential loss. Rich people focus on rewards. Poor focus… — T. Harv Eker
Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did. — T. Harv Eker
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely too much time… — George Washington Carver
The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove… — Willis R. Whitney
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives. — Kofi Annan
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to… — Walter Raleigh
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner
People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays. — Don Cheadle
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. — Patrick Henry
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if… — Patrick Henry
Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. — Keanu Reeves

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