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Quotes About Opportunity

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
~ Idries Shah
Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
~ Idries Shah
If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.
~ Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
~ Idries Shah
ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).
~ Idries Shah
If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
~ Idries Shah
Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)
~ Idries Shah
El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla".
~ Idries Shah
Andaki: El esfuerzo no es esfuerzo sin ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (tiempo adecuado, lugar adecuado, gente adecuada)
~ Idries Shah
The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.
~ Idries Shah
La puerta de la iluminación se abre para quienes otras puertas están cerradas.
~ Idries Shah
Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.
~ Idries Shah
Cuando la fortuna llama, abre la puerta", dicen. Pero, ¿por qué mantienes la puerta cerrada y obligas a la fortuna a que llame?
~ Idries Shah
La Oportunidad es preciosa, y el tiempo es una espada.
~ Idries Shah
Everything man needs is in the world.
~ Idries Shah
Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.
~ Idries Shah
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
~ Idries Shah
Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. (Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)
~ Idries Shah
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
~ Idries Shah
The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
~ Idris Elba
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
~ Idris Elba
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
~ Ilchi Lee
There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it.
~ Ilchi Lee
They call my little Joan the most beautiful woman in all England. Well, every father thinks that about his daughter. That she is special, and prettier. But I never had the opportunity to boast. My name is Edmund of Woodstock and I am the son of a king and the brother of a king and the grandfather of a king.
~ Colin Falconer