Quotes about opportunity
opportunity men often-is
Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
opportunity female lovers
Charles Caleb Colton Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
opportunity mind glory
Charles Caleb Colton The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.
opportunity extremity
Charles Spurgeon Our extremities are God's opportunities.
opportunity honor denial
Charles Spurgeon When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.
opportunity library today
Alan Moore I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
opportunity voice people
Alan Moore It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
opportunity giving people
Alan Green I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
opportunity identity limits
Alan Arkin A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
opportunity actors stuff
Al Pacino If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.
opportunity each-day new-opportunity
Aiden Wilson Tozer Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.
opportunity government pet
Chris Chocola The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
opportunity america miracle
Chris Coons I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue
opportunity water world
Chris Albrecht One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life.
opportunity careers may
Chris Albrecht Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
opportunity conservative
Chris Alexander I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.
opportunity privilege down-and
Chris Abani The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
opportunity endurance process
Chin-Ning Chu Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.
opportunity land tribes
Edward Hoagland Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?
opportunity years would-be
Edward Gibbon Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.
opportunity history giving
Edward Gibbon The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.
opportunity expression should-have
Edith Schaeffer Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
opportunity thinking years
Edith Wharton They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.
opportunity made states
Earl Warren Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
opportunity giving people
Daymond John I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime.
opportunity challenges opportunities-to-learn
David Rockwell Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
opportunity order nwo
David Rockefeller This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
opportunity firsts film
David Heyman If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.
opportunity challenges potters
David Heyman I look forward to having the time and the opportunity to take on new challenges, but I'm also aware that I've loved every minute of the 'Potter 'experience: to make films for an enthusiastic audience and work with great material.
opportunity disaster
David Icke Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
opportunity soul alone-with-god
David Brainerd My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God
opportunity america arms
Arnold Schwarzenegger As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.