Quotes with opportunity

Quotes 161 till 180 of 260.

  • Ben Stiller Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Robert Collier Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • David Sarnoff Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Jim Rohn Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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  • Machiavelli Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Billie Jean King That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Davison That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Newhart The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • John Fischer The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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  • Helen Rowland The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Robert Collier The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Ayn Rand The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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