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Quotes About Opportunities

The iterative cycle provides opportunities to convert weakness into strength by using the knowledge derived from failure to shorten the gap between practitioners and their goals.
~ John Sharp
La condición estacionaria del capital y de la población no implica un estado estacionario del mejoramiento humano. Habría muchas oportunidades para todo tipo de mentalidades culturales, para el progreso moral, social, para perfeccionar el arte de vivir si las mentes dejasen de centrarse en el arte de medrar" Principios de Economía Política
~ John Stuart Mill
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
~ John W. Gardner
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
~ John W. Gardner
Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes
~ John Whitmore
Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
~ John Wooden
President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
~ Elizabeth Warren
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Some think that if they give money to this work, it is all they are required to do; but this is an error. Donations of money cannot take the place of personal ministry. It is right to give our means, and many more should do this; but according to their strength and opportunities, personal service is required of all.
~ Ellen G. White
Our time here is short. We can pass through this world but once; as we pass along, let us make the most of life. The
~ Ellen G. White
La formación de un carácter noble es la obra de toda una vida, y debe ser el resultado de un aplicado y perseverante esfuerzo. Dios da las oportunidades; el éxito depende del uso que se haga de ellas.
~ Ellen Gould White
At every stage of development our life may be perfect; yet if God's purpose for us is fulfilled, there will be continual advancement. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime. As our opportunities multiply, our experience will enlarge, and {66} our knowledge increase. We shall become strong to bear responsibility, and our maturity will be in proportion to our privileges.
~ Ellen White
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
~ Emanuel Cleaver
All it takes to be made in life is just humility, punctuality, availability, utilization and maximization of the prospects i.e. the chances or opportunities that can lead one to success. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Anything/anyone that comes your way whether good or bad, favourable or unfavourable is meant to teach you a lesson and not at all to lessen you. So, be willing and consistent to learn a lot and then wise up.
~ Emeasoba George
Challenges of life are never meant to be stumbling blocks to you/anyone. Yes! rather they are strictly meant to become stepping stones for your/anybody's success.
~ Emeasoba George
Opportunities are meant to be utilized and maximized. And until/unless you're ready to utilize and maximize all the opportunites that you come across, you will hardly acquire or achieve all your needs, goals, targets, dreams, visions or aspirations. Thus, never take opportunities for granted.
~ Emeasoba George
The future is never built in the future. Yes! it is only built in the present moment by utilizing the opportunities that come your way. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.
~ Emil Cioran
All men see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? For the indifferent, to whom nature offers an insipid and cold objectivity, life even when fully enjoyed is a sum of missed opportunities. — Emil M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair . (University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition October 1, 1996) Originally published 1933.
~ Emil M. Cioran
La tentación del martirio es grande también, porque nos evita examinarnos profundamente. Pero de nada sirve convertirnos en enfermeros, terapeutas y guardianes 24 x 7 si vamos a acabar con nuestra salud y estabilidad mental en pocos años. La carrera es larga y sólo podemos aprovechar las oportunidades que pueden aparecer si tenemos reservas de confianza y energía para poder hacer alguna locura cuando parece valer la pena.
~ Barbara Anderson
Quite simply, as a generation, we had too many choices. And when you have a choice, you want to make the right one, especially if you have great expectations.
~ Barbara Moses
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
~ Barry Commoner
When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.
~ Barry Schwartz