Opportunity Quotes: Inspiring Words to Seize the Moment

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Opportunity makes a thief"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

Betty Friedan, Activist

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"America is another name for opportunity"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity"

Irving Kristol, Editor

"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year"

Voltaire, Writer

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Ability is nothing without opportunity"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring"

Mae West, Actress

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Living in this manner also gave them the opportunity to locate targets and develop methods of attack that would make the most impact on the population, infrastructure, and governments of these areas"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope"

Mikhail Saakashvili, Statesman

"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"

Kanye West, Musician

"You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more"

John Templeton, Businessman

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are"

John Burroughs, Author

"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat"

Allen West, Politician

"We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now"

Michael Phelps, Athlete

"Inside of every problem lies an opportunity"

Robert Kiyosaki, Author

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