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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Sir Francis Bacon
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional."
John Amatt
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."
M. Shawn Covey
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."
Albert Einstein
"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
Thomas Mann
"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet."
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
"Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity."
Cassia Lewis
"Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet."
Michael J. Gelb
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
Irving Kristol
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way."
Noam Chomsky
"Every disappointment gives you opportunity to make another appointment."
B. A. Fajimi
"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity."
Dan Custer
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
Dr. Viktor E(mil) Frankl
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Moshe Arens
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