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All the windows of my heart I open to the day.
Sep 10, 2025
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
You must make your own opportunities.
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.
Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
Know thine opportunity.
As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!
Little opportunities should be improved.
A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.
The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask.
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities.
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
Life is a glorious opportunity.
I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race. ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!
When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.
There is no security in life, only opportunity.
Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
I think that there has been a slow recognition that there's a mind at work here, and there's a skill and some bit of artistry, and that I could probably do other things. Otherwise, I don't know that I would've been given the opportunity to do Paris, Je T'Aime.
There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and heating systems, making sure that the internal air quality is good, that we have increased natural ventilation opportunities in the mid seasons. You know these are some of the things we can do.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.