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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Work hard at work worth doing.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.
I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Change brings opportunity.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
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.
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence
You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
You must live the life of a saint. You have no choice because to do anything else is to enter into the human kingdom, which is a land of unfulfilled opportunity.
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
Be an opener of doors
