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Quotes About Opportunity

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
~ Ovid
Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.
~ Marian Erickson
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.
~ John Webster
I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius but it really was a lucky break.
~ Joan Ganz Cooney
In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.
~ William E. Woodward
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.
~ John Jakes
Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.
~ Anonymous
Go and wake up your luck.
~ Persian Proverb
Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
~ Frank Wedekind
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
~ Paul Tournier
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
~ Henny Youngman
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
~ Bernie Siegel
As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.
~ Hortense Odlum
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.
~ Caitlin Moran
Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
~ William Thackeray
Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.
~ Jackie Mason
My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.
~ Bill Gates
Books are keys that open many doors.
~ James Rollins
Your blessings lay beyond your fear.
~ Shannon L. Alder
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.
~ Douglas MacArthur
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
~ Sitting Bull
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
~ Socrates