Quotes about Opportunity
I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.
- Mike Huckabee
You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
- Thomas Watson Sr.
If you got the talent and the drive, there are ways to get noticed.
- Lil Yachty
I worked behind the record counter at Woolworths when I was 16. It was when Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe' came out and The Verve were getting big. I'd have probably worked my way up to store manager if I'd have stuck around.
- Andrew Flintoff
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle
- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.
- Norman Vincent Peale