It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
— Sense and Sensibility
Quotes About Opportunity
Helen Keller described the most common way opportunity is missed: when one door closes another opens, but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened. Mark Twain admitted he was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson was less forgiving: no great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Machiavelli paired opportunity with ability, arguing that without opportunity the strength of the spirit is sapped, and without ability the opportunity is wasted. Richard Nixon made a similar point about government, which can provide opportunity, though opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. Albert Einstein held that all that is valuable in human society depends on the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Lyndon B. Johnson called education not a problem but an opportunity. George Bernard Shaw explained the popularity of marriage as the maximum of temptation combined with the maximum of opportunity.
Machiavelli paired opportunity with ability, arguing that without opportunity the strength of the spirit is sapped, and without ability the opportunity is wasted. Richard Nixon made a similar point about government, which can provide opportunity, though opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. Albert Einstein held that all that is valuable in human society depends on the opportunity for development accorded the individual. Lyndon B. Johnson called education not a problem but an opportunity. George Bernard Shaw explained the popularity of marriage as the maximum of temptation combined with the maximum of opportunity.
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
— Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others.
— Tao Te Ching
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— The Essays
For Time calls only once, and that determines all.
— Electra
the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
— The Art of War
If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.
— The Prince
earn what you can since everything's for sale
— Canterbury Tales
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
— The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.
— The Works of Archimedes
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
But, instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.
We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.