Quotes About Opportunity

When the point person in an organization strives for balance, he potentially robs other leaders of an opportunity to perform at the top of their game.

What is the wise thing for you to do? You are a unique blend of past experiences, current circumstances, and future hopes and dreams. Wisdom allows you to customize the decision-making process to your specific professional, financial, and relational dimensions. Don't miss this opportunity. Think

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

simply a lesson in things not to repeat. Leaders can much more easily live with the prospects of having tried and failed than not having tried at all. Leaders fear missed opportunity more than they fear an unsuccessful enterprise.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

As I listen to leaders tell their stories, I hear very little about strategic planning and goal setting. I hear a lot about identifying and acting on opportunities. Strategies and goals have their place. But they don't define leadership. Leaders see and seize opportunity. And in most cases, the opportunities take them by surprise.

Courage in a strategic moment can change the playing field dramatically.

Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Indeed, a great life can come from small beginnings.

How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.

did it because I wanted to change my life. That's what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we're forced to buy new shoes.

When the Fyre inside is kindled and when the Time Is Right, anything is possible.

I wonder," Marcia said. "If you would consider being my apprentice?

Thank you very much, Miss Badger," she said. "I appreciate your honesty. I realise this may have put you in a difficult position here, but I trust you will not have any trouble." Marcia glared at Jillie Djinn. "However, if you do, there is always a place for you at the Wizard Tower.

It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has; that is why the gods are always young.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

She always believed in the old adage, "Leave them while you're looking good."