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Quotes About Opportunity

The only way to avoid trouble is to avoid living.
~ Sydney J. Harris
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
~ Sydney Smith
Partial Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage". Full Quote; "A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort".
~ Sydney Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage
~ Sydney Smith
Star performers are very likely to attract sponsors, and loyal performers are very likely to keep them. But if they fail to distinguish themselves, these loyal performers run the risk of becoming permanent seconds, lieutenants who never make captain. To position themselves for the top job, protégés must therefore contribute something the leader prizes but may intrinsically lack:
~ Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Fear isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's a natural result of aiming high.
~ Sylvia Engdahl
The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student's struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.
~ Sylvia Rimm
Money is a lubricant. It lets you ìslideî through life instead of having to ìscrapeî by. Money brings freedomófreedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life. Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.
~ T. Harv Eker
It's not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You have to be the right person in the right place at the right time.
~ T. Harv Eker
In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
~ T. S. Eliot
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
~ T. S. Eliot
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~ T. S. Eliot
There will be time to murder and create.
~ T. S. Eliot
Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.
~ T.A. Barron
In chess, as in life, your choice will make all the difference.
~ T.A. Barron
need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table
~ T.D. Jakes
How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them.
~ T.D. Jakes
Why am I here?" You may have asked the question as you found yourself in the midst of an amazing, divinely orchestrated opportunity, or you may have asked it in reaction to having made the worst mistake of your life.
~ T.D. Jakes
Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God's unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.
~ T.D. Jakes
What are you going to do with what you have been given?
~ T.D. Jakes
we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.
~ T.D. Jakes
The fact that God has exposed you to something is always a sign that it can be yours. God is exposing you so you can absorb Destiny in the deepest part of your soul. Breathe in, breathe in and believe and let God open the doors to Destiny through exposure.
~ T.D. Jakes
Ultimately everything God has ever said will come to pass. When we suffer loss like Eve did, we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.
~ T.D. Jakes
Skepticism is fine, but don't pass by a once in a lifetime opportunity to uncover a treasure because of it.
~ T.R. Bosse