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Quotes About Opportunity

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.
~ Hasan of Basra
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Iowa is home to teachers, farmers, lawyers, factory workers, and many others who work hard every day to provide the best for their families and their future.
~ Leonard Boswell
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence
~ Jay Bilas
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
~ J. Paul Getty
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn't find you, you find it.
~ Jared Leto
The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.
~ Zig Ziglar
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
~ Cory Monteith
All men are created equal. Some work harder in preseason.
~ Emmitt Smith
Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.
~ Mike Rowe
I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.
~ Isaiah Mustafa
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
~ LeBron James
You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
~ John Legend
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
~ Bernie Taupin
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
~ Ed Bradley
Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.
~ Dustin Moskovitz
The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
~ Roger von Oech
Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
~ Maria Menounos
I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.
~ Brad Pitt
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
~ Emilia Clarke