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Quotes About Opportunities

Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.
~ Mark Martin
Every morning brings thousands of opportunities; and thousands of perils too! Life is open to all the possibilities that a man can not even imagine!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
~ Sally Field
Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.
~ Cheyenne Kimball
I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.
~ Clive Owen
By this time, Washington's airports were buried in two feet of snow, so I boarded a train for Boston. During the long ride back I wondered how my research into the mathematical theory of a game might change my life. In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. I chose to investigate blackjack. As a result, chance offered me a new set of unexpected opportunities.
~ Edward O. Thorp
Hesitation is such a dilemma of feeling that loses all available opportunities
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Protecting own life and equal-living opportunities, as the jobs, education, and social activities accordingly moral values of society execute human rights or a person's right. However, not protecting that and instead of that fighting for such freedom that stays beyond the moral, religious, and traditional values defines as self-choice, not human rights or a person's right. Indeed, such struggles and attempts fail and never prevail; one cannot surpass that without leaving such a society.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Protecting own life and equal-living opportunities, as the jobs, education, and social activities accordingly moral values of society execute human rights or a person's right. However, not protecting that and instead of that fighting for such freedom that, stays beyond the moral, religious, and traditional values, defines self-choice, not the human rights or a person's right. Indeed, such struggles and attempts fail and never prevail, one cannot surpass that, without leaving such a society.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Most of us are vigilant when making big decisions, but less so when dealing with little ones. We forget the cumulative effect of all those missed "little" opportunities. It is precisely on those thousand little occasions, and over a period of time, that the mind is taught to be calm and kind - not instantaneously or by great leaps. In the ordinary choices of every day we begin to change the direction of our lives.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I had been a girl who felt lost, this was true. All the hopes of youth seemed to have been destroyed, I seemed to be falling backwards towards my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from. Missed opportunities.
~ Elena Ferrante
That rejection you went through, don't have it bring you down. It's only a splash in an ocean of opportunities.
~ Anthony Liccione
Brains and hard work are of very little avail, Jenkins, unless you know the right people.
~ Anthony Powell
A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.
~ Antony Beevor
The New Year is a beautiful bouquet of newer unfolding opportunities to fulfill unfinished commitments with renewed vigour of heart and move-up on an accelerating speed to reach to a new milestone of a promising career and enriching life's journey.
~ Anuj Somany
Unemployment is problem for everyone, but a pronounced issue is not so much for 10 or 12 pass-outs or less educated or even illiterates as much for graduates and post graduates
~ Anuj Somany
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
A man's rights are not merely decorations or ends in themselves. They are opportunities, instruments, trusts. And when any man has them, it means that he is placed on a vantage-ground from which, secure of oppression or interference, he may begin to do his duty.[
~ Archibald B. C. Alexander
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
~ Armstrong Williams
I know I did the right thing by taking time off to raise my son. But it also came at a price. I turned down many opportunities over the years because I didn't want to leave him for long periods of time. And in Hollywood, as in any business, the calls stop coming when you don't answer.
~ Arsenio Hall
The best things happen to people who make the best of things that happen to them.
~ Art Linkletter
I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.
~ Robbie Williams
You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.
~ Esther McVey