Aidan Chambers Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Missing Quotes

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

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Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Strength Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Book Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , May Quotes

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts.

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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Success Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don't try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , May Quotes

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

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Tags : Alan Hirsch Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Forever Quotes

What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Helping Quotes

Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Past Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Keep moving ahead because action creates momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

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Tags : Nick Vujicic Quotes , Moving Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , May Quotes

Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , World Quotes

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Heaven Quotes