Opportunities Quotes

The mission for the day is to encourage students to think beyond traditional career opportunities, prepare for future careers and entrance into the workplace.

Allen Tate
- Future
- Career
- Students
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.

Norman Vincent Peale

Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

Napoleon Hill
- People
- Time
- Action
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never, ever doing exclusively criticism. In the daily newspaper world, much more value is placed on reporting than on thinking abstractly about art. The eight years I was in newspapers, I was mainly a journalist in the conventional sense, and just doing criticism when there were opportunities.

Chuck Klosterman
- World
- Thinking
- Art
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.

Anders Chydenius
- Work
- Society
- Enjoy
Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

Karen E. Quinones Miller
It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I've passed up opportunities. I've avoided the spotlight. I've never been to Academy Awards, didn't relate to them.

Harry Dean Stanton