Good Opportunity Quotes

• One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Writing, Opportunity, Very Good

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• Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Fighting

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• Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Opportunity

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.10, Lulu.com

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

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Opportunity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.115, University of Missouri Press

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Milton Berle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

  Publilius Syrus

  Opportunity, Lost, Lost Opportunity

  "Maxims".

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• I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day

  Gillian Anderson

  Reading, Good Day, Have A Great Day

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• I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

  Gillian Anderson

  Change, Reading, Good Day

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• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Strength, Wisdom, Nature

  "From Colonialism to Communism: A Case History of North Vietnam". Book by Van Chi Hoang, 1964.

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• We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Summer, Opportunity

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• It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

  Megan Martha White

  Travel, Opportunity, Idols

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great.

  Kieran Culkin

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Casts

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• One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

  Jose Rizal

  Opportunity, Doe, Lost

  Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.17, Penguin

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• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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• I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.

  James McAvoy

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  Haruki Murakami

  Opportunity, Jail, Long

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• The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.

  T. Harv Eker

  Business, Opportunity, Winning

  T. Harv Eker (2009). “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

  Troian Bellisario

  Opportunity, World, Wonderful

  "Troian's Emotional Struggle". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

  Charles Dickens

  Opportunity, Energy, Deuces

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