Opportunities Quotes
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.Walt Kelly, "Pogo" (comic strip)
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - The frontier of the 1960s - A frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - A frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.Bill Nye, Interview with Wired. com, April 2005
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.Sally Koch
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.J. Paul Getty
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.Harry S Truman
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.Sun - Tzu
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a - Coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.John B. Gough
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.Michael
America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.George Santayana
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.Author Unknown
Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.Marsha Evans
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys.Vernon A. Walters
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.Henry J. Kaise
Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.Clarence Birdseye
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.Margaret Lowenfeld
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.Eric Hoffe
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.John W. Gardne
Opportunities are seldom labeled.John H. Shield
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
You create your opportunities by asking for them.Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11 - 05
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.Sue Atchley Ebaugh
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.William Bridges
Education must provide the opportunities for self - Fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.Noam Chomsky
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Sir Francis Bacon
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.Henry James
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
