319 quotes found
“We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.”
“I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.”
“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait ...”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.”
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einsteins brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. ”
“All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny ...”
“Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.”
“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadnt been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldnt have been lucky.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.”
“Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.”
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”
“Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.”
“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”
“I take the opportunity each day offers.”
“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”