Best opportunity & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.”

Motivational Opportunity Energy Waiting Effort Attention Determination Dare Resolve Controlled Constructs Captured Will Power Those Who Wait

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.”

Use Today Choices Asks Opportunity Ability Answers Views Effort Quality Talent Skills Highest Focused Transcendentalism Seize The Opportunity Be Considerate Skills And Abilities

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.”

Life Shows Today Opportunity Effort Kindness Divine Conscious

Author:O. S. Hawkins

“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .”

“In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.”

Kind Opportunity Effort Ordinary Embrace Shining Excellence Extras Endeavor Mediocrity Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we're supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we've got to capitalize.”

Knows Opportunity Easy Chance Effort Approach Pressure Glasses Offensive Second Chance

Author:Andy Kennedy

“Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.”

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Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.”

Thinking Real Opportunity Wealth Effort Poverty Materials Achievement Overcoming Mere Acknowledge Disgrace

Book:The History of the Peloponnesian War

Source: The History of the Peloponnesian War

“I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.”

Ifs World I Can Hands Opportunity Effort Materials Directors Candle

Author:Daryl Hannah

“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”

Needs Use Hands Government Opportunity Effort Liberty Advantage Abuse Increase Selfish Selfishness Mental Power Demagoguery

Book:Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

Source: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

“There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.”

Littles States Courses Opportunity Effort Gains Advantage Determine Little Knowledge

Author:Mark Cuban

“Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.”

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Book:The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man

Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.”

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Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.”

Years Long Lying Opportunity Water Effort Watches Strength Gains Appreciate Relaxation Hurrying

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.”

“One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.”

Different Real Film Opportunity Chance Effort Team Independent Scripts Budgets Independent Film Team Effort

Author:Will Ferrell

“If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Firsts Mean Ends Facts Remember Dies Next Opportunity Answers Effort Failing Giving Up Never Giving Up

Author:Abdul Kalam

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